Andre Rieu Maastricht Announces Christmas Cinema Event

'The King of Waltz' has done it again. Breaking his own box office record from last year, André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert in Cinemas took more than £1.4 million at the UK box office on the weekend to become the Highest Grossing Music Concert of all time.

Audiences won't have to wait long to see André on the big screen again, as tickets are now on sale for a special Christmas event to screen in over 500 UK cinemas on Saturday 19th November at 5pm.

CinemaLive proudly presents André Rieu: Christmas with André - a festive celebration featuring a 90-minute filmed Christmas concert packed with favourites including Hallelujah, Jingle Bells, White Christmas & many more performed by André and his famous Johann Strauss Orchestra along with his sopranos and tenors.

As an exclusive for cinema audiences, André will invite fans to his hometown for a live intimate tour of Maastricht's magical Christmas highlights, and join CinemaLive host, Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins, for a Q & A to answer questions submitted by cinema audiences.

CinemaLive Director Janelle Mason said: "Cinema audiences worldwide have responded so enthusiastically to seeing André Rieu and his wonderful orchestra and performers as large as life on the big screen in the Maastricht summer concert series. We're now very much looking forward to bringing cinema audiences some Christmas cheer André-style, including the chance to be led on a tour of Maastricht Christmas magic by André himself."

André Rieu said: "Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year. I love the music and traditions and I am looking forward to showing the cinema audiences how my home town does Christmas".

André Rieu: Christmas with André will screen in over 500 cinemas across the UK on Saturday 19th November at 5pm.

See list of participating cinemas at www.andreincinemas.com. André Rieu tours the UK this December. For dates and venues, visit www.andrerieu.com.

André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert in Cinemas set a new box record in the UK to become the highest-grossing music concert of all time, taking more than £1.4 million (Source: Rentrak) from two screenings over the weekend. This year, for the first time, CinemaLive introduced a Sunday matinee screening which proved incredibly popular and contributed to 30% of the box office gross.

Known for his energetic and festive live performances and with album and DVD sales of more than 40 million worldwide, André is the world's leading pop classical artist and consistently appears on the worldwide list of highest-grossing touring artists. Since his Johann Strauss Orchestra, with up to 60 musicians, began in 1987, his spectacular live shows have gained him hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the world.

CinemaLive is a multi-award winning specialist in Event Cinema which distributes and delivers live and recorded content theatrically to over 70 countries wide covering a range of genres including music concerts, opera, theatre, musicals and comedy. For more, visit www.cinemalive.com.