“HOME” TOUR 2012
TICKETS ON SALE 10AM FRIDAY 11 MAY
6 Degrees Management is thrilled to announce that opera singer Mirusia Louwerse will be returning to Australia for her first ever solo Australian east coast Home Tour. After living in Europe for five years, and travelling the world as Andre Rieu’s soprano, Mirusia is coming home to embark on her own tour in July with special guest Sam Moran. Tickets will be available from 10am 11th May.
Mirusia will begin her tour in her hometown at the Redland Performing Arts Centre, QLD on Thursday 5th July. She will be at the Powerhouse Theatre in Brisbane on Saturday 7th July. She will then travel down to perform at The Regal Ballroom in Melbourne on Friday 13th July and finally the Sydney Opera House Studio on Saturday 14th July.
Songs will include some old favourites like Ave Maria and I Still Call Australia Home as well as some of her own compositions including Forever Shine.
“There's no place like home, and that is why I am so excited to be returning home after five years touring around the world with André Rieu, to perform for you all back at my home, Australia” Mirusia says.
Don’t miss your chance to spend a very special evening seeing Mirusia Louwerse and her special guest Sam Moran.
“I feel very proud to have been the person who gave Mirusia the possibility to start her career. After working five years with this incredibly talented soprano I can only wish her all the luck she deserves in her solo career” -André Rieu.
WAALWIJK - De stichting Social Network Foundation (SNF) hield zondag 11 maart het eerste SNF Familie Evenement in De Leest. Ruim 400 bezoekers genoten van een gevarieerd programma.
Daarbij was uiteraard ook alle aandacht voor het doel van SNF: ernstig zieke kinderen tot 18 jaar in Nederland een steuntje in de rug bieden. Absoluut hoogtepunt van de middag was het optreden van Mirusia Louwerse, de internationaal bekende sopraansoliste, verbonden aan het orkest van André Rieu.
"Er bietet ihnen im zweiten Teil, was viele hören und sehen wollen: einen Walzer. Und - als ob er passend für das Tennisstadion ausgesucht worden wäre - gönnt er ihnen den "Sportpalastwalzer". Als Geschenk. Aber auch als minutenlanges Ablenkungsmanöver.Schließlich soll die Überraschung bleiben. Schließlich sollen seine - zugegeben, vor allem älteren - Fans verblüfft sein, wenn er anschließend das zauberhafte Kindermädchen Mary Poppins einschweben lässt. Das wirkungsvolle Manöver gelingt. Und Mirusia Louwerse fliegt über die Zuschauer hinweg, während sie - mit Schirm und Köfferchen in der Hand - "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" anstimmt."
Andre Rieu Brengt Sneeuw naar GelreDome
André Rieu heeft zaterdag in een uitverkocht GelreDome een drie uur durend concert gegeven. De Limburger wist de bezoekers van het concert niet alleen als vanouds te imponeren met het indrukwekkende decor, ook had Rieu voor de gelegenheid maar wat nepsneeuw laten aanrukken.
De Australische Mirusia Louwerse oogstte een daverend applaus met haar uitvoeringen van liedjes uit 'Mary Poppins' en 'Evita'.
Rieu greep uiteraard ook terug naar de muziek van Johan Strauss en bracht daar een aantal mensen in de zaal mee aan het walsen. Bij zijn toegift bracht hij het publiek pas echt op stoom, met een half uur durende finale tot gevolg.
Mirusia on 'Je Zal Het Maar Zijn' with Sophie Hilbrand.
See the Episode here:
http://sites.bnn.nl/page/jzhmz/video/e773ffc6aec0d26816507bc8e34c5758
(For an English sub-titled version check out www.andrerieu-movies.com)
"The two-and-a-half-hour (including intermission) evening included perennial favourites, including Johann Strauss II's lilting Voices of Spring and Viennese Blood performed with elegant grace. The Skaters' Waltz, with its gorgeous projected backdrop of an old-fashioned ice rink, elicited audible oohs from the crowd, surpassed only by Thomas Koschat's Snowwaltz that included a large dump of "snow" on the audience. As a consummate showman, Rieu set up each selection with his customary wit, quipping frequently about how he dreamt every night of performing in Winnipeg.
Australian soprano Mirusia Louwerse's crystal clear Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, became another highlight."
Radio Interview: Mirusia is soloist bij Andre Rieu, heeft een bijzonder mooie stem en een uitstralende persoonlijkheid. Vandaag was te gast bij Conny. Listen to the review.
As the beautiful skylark Mirusia is, I am excited about her new DVD and aesthetic can not wait until it can be bought. She is a gift to the entire nation and your cooperation with the world's most wonderful violinist André Rieu makes it all complete. She has a wonderful singing voice and a lovely radiance. I wish you every success in your life and into the future I will enjoy you both in Maastricht, I listen to her wonderful singing voice on my DVD
Rieu's 'electrical' performance
"An hour-long electrical storm over Suncorp Stadium last night only added to the drama of middle-aged heart-throb Andre Rieu's first Brisbane concert.
The crowd of about 20,000 mostly over 50s fans clapped, waltzed and sang well into the night alongside the populist Dutch maestro in the most unusual display of unbridled enthusiasm by a classical music audience.
A tribute to the late Luciano Pavarotti by Rieu's own trio of tenors had the crowd in raptures early, while ice skaters in ballgowns, twirling debutantes and a singing "angel" suspended from the ceiling of the faux Viennese castle kept the spectacles coming.
But it was 23-year-old Brisbane soprano and Rieu's tourmate Mirusia Louwerse who stole the spotlight - and the lion's share of applause - with a soaring rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from his Phantom of the Opera.
Decked out in a floor-length red sequinned number, she looked and sounded every inch the diva before leading the audience in a chant of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi" - fitting, given the sporting backdrop.
She reurned for an operatic take on "Botany Bay", a folk number, Rieu confided to his adoring fans, that had moved him to tears the first time his young protege let rip with it."
Mirusia hits a high note with Dame Joan Award win BIRKDALE soprano Mirusia Louwerse will head off to Europe and America next year on an opera "audition tour" after winning the $10,000 Dame Joan Sutherland Award this month.
Twenty one-year-old Mirusia won the award, named in honour of the famous Australian opera star, after beating six older and more experienced finalists at the finals at the Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Noosa.
"I was the baby of the group. I was in disbelief – in shock. I was speechless. This is something I've always really wanted to win," she said.
The award was particularly auspicious as this year marks Dame Joan's 80th birthday.
Mirusia finishes her music degree at the Queensland Conservatorium this year and said she would be promoting her CD, recorded recently with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, while on tour.
"I want to appeal to the younger generation. I want to see them get involved with opera. It's an important part of their heritage and the young people are the one who will carry it on," she said.
Mirusia actually prefers to sing "popera" as her vehicle to give the classics that younger appeal.
"Popera uses modern instruments and even a drum beat," she said.
Despite this bent, she said she performed straight opera to win the award.