Andre Rieu's 2026 Summer Concert: Viva Maastricht! - Arc Cinema Drogheda

Andre Rieu’s summer concert film brings his Maastricht amphitheatre show to the big screen in Drogheda over the second weekend of August, playing three showings across Saturday and Sunday. It is part of Arc Cinema Drogheda’s event cinema strand, which regularly brings filmed concerts, opera, ballet and theatre to the venue’s regular screens alongside its normal film schedule.

What to expect

Viva Maastricht is the filmed version of Andre Rieu’s 2026 summer concert, recorded at his regular open-air amphitheatre setting on the Vrijthof square in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and released into cinemas worldwide for a limited run. Rieu’s Johann Strauss Orchestra performs a mix of waltzes, opera crossover, film themes and singalong favourites, staged with the elaborate lighting, fireworks and guest performers that mark his summer concert series each year, and the cinema cut is edited from multiple camera angles rather than being a single static recording of the stage. At Arc Cinema Drogheda the film plays as an event cinema screening rather than a regular listing, meaning it runs in a single auditorium at set showtimes rather than throughout the day, and is bought as a separate ticket type to standard films. It shows twice on the Saturday, in the afternoon and evening, and once on the Sunday evening, giving three chances to catch it across the weekend before the print moves on. The same event cinema strand at Arc Cinema Drogheda also carries NT Live theatre broadcasts, opera relays and other concert films through the autumn, so Viva Maastricht is one of several such titles passing through the venue rather than a one-off booking.

Good to know

• Dates and times: Saturday 8 August at 3:30pm and 7pm; Sunday 9 August at 7pm

• Venue: Arc Cinema Drogheda, Scotch Hall Shopping Centre, Drogheda

• Price: ticketed as an event cinema screening; check the booking link for current pricing

• Book: drogheda.arccinema.ie/event/109015

• Part of Arc Cinema’s wider event cinema programme, which also brings NT Live, opera and other concert films to the same screen through autumn 2026

Getting there

Arc Cinema Drogheda is inside Scotch Hall Shopping Centre on the south bank of the Boyne, a short walk from Drogheda’s town centre and bus station. Drogheda is on the M1 motorway around 50km north of Dublin, with Irish Rail and Bus Eireann both running frequent services from Dublin on the Dublin-Belfast line, and Drogheda MacBride station is close enough to reach the cinema on foot in a few minutes. Scotch Hall has its own multi-storey car park directly serving the shopping centre and cinema, so driving over from elsewhere in Louth or Meath is straightforward too.