André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor. He is best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have appeared throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, and Australia. In 2008 Rieu’s extravagant tour featured a full size reproduction of Empress Sisi’s Castle.
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André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor. He is best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have appeared throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, and Australia. In 2008 Rieu’s extravagant tour featured a full size reproduction of Empress Sisi’s Castle, the biggest stage ever to go on tour at that time. In the first half of 2009, André Rieu was the world’s most successful male touring artist, according to Billboard magazine.
He speaks six languages: Dutch, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. His recordings have gone gold and platinum in many countries, including 8-times Platinum in the Netherlands. For two weeks in 2013, one of the channels of BSkyB group, Sky Arts 2 in the UK, was renamed as Sky Arts Rieu.
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