Product Details

• Actors: Rieu, Andre
• Directors: Rieu, Andre
• Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: German
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Denon Records
• DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002NGD902
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,081 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

You are most cordially invited to a wedding celebration concert with André Rieu in one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world, the famous Semper Opera in Dresden.

As well as the charming bride and bridegroom of this joyous occasion, there are 40 more fabulous pairs of dancers from the famous Vienna Debutantes of the Elmayer Dance School in Vienna. Together with the beautiful sopranos Mirusia Louwerse and Carmen Monarcha, the bombastic Platinum Tenors, the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the inspirational direction of André Rieu, this is sure to be one of his most festive concert performances ever! This DVD includes tracks not shown on the television special.

André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra have performed throughout Europe, in North America, and Japan. They have won a number of awards including two World Music Awards and have recordings that have gone Gold and Platinum in many countries around the world. André Rieu plays a 1667 Stradivarius. His repertoire includes a wide range of classical music as well as popular and folk music plus music from famous motion picture sound tracks and theatre musicals. His lively and colorful orchestral presentations have attracted worldwide audiences to classical music.

1. Wiener Melange
2. The Wedding March
3. Hoch Sollen Sie Leben
4. Vienna Blood
5. Plaisir d'Amour
6. Figaro Cavatina
7. Dancing Through The Skies
8. E Lucevan Le Stelle
9. I'm Off To Chez Maxim
10. Espana Cani
11. I Hear The Sound of Cymbals
12. Wer Uns Getraut
13. You and You Waltz (Du Und Du)
14. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
15. All I Ask of You
16. The Beautiful Blue Danube
17. Radetzky March
18. Strauss & Co.
19. Adieu, Little Captain of My Heart
20. Dancing Through The Skies II

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars André does it again!, November 30, 2009

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James M. Gebel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera (DVD)

After seeing André Rieu's "Live in Vienna" and thinking "it doesn't get any better than this, the World Music King pulls another one out of his hat! . It was not just excellent music - it was excellent entertainment - especially in the "Figaro" aria, where, by weaving in the comical "barber chair" segment, he turned what for some "modernists" was too "dated" a piece into an entertainment delight. Besides the orchestra doing their usual excellent job, the singers - both male and female - were superb, with the Platin Tenors's rendition of "E Lucevan le Stelle" perhaps the best that I have ever heard.

The whole program flowed seamlessly from start to finish, with the two themes (marriage and opera) combined cleverly and tastefully throughout the show; and nothing could have been a better backdrop for such than Dresden's beautiful Semperoperhaus. The mix of tunes, the costumery, and André's witty commentary made for a perfect blend; there wasn't a tedious moment in the whole program. I would recommend this DVD for not just for "André-philes" but for ANYONE.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never Ever disappoints!, November 5, 2009

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Fischer "musicdude" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera (DVD)

I always have Rieu's new releases pre ordered at amazon so the arrive as soon as they are available. his new one is fantastic - a real video dream from the opulent opera house in Dresden. He's not called the 'Waltz King' for nothing!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply satisfying, December 6, 2009

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Robert R. Vischer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live In Dresden: The Wedding at the Opera (DVD)

With all the trash on TV, this was a deeply satisfying DVD to watch instead !! Still got a good dose of classical music, besides hearing the "wedding march" in full.