Krakow, 15/05/2027
Kraków’s Tauron Arena will fill with waltzes and warmth on Saturday, 15 May 2027, when André Rieu brings the Johann Strauss Orchestra to Poland’s largest indoor arena for an evening built around elegance, humour and shared celebration. The show begins at 20:00, and it arrives on the back of a run of Polish dates that has already taken the Dutch violinist and conductor through Gdańsk and Gliwice earlier the same month.
Rieu’s touring shows have built a loyal following across Central Europe in recent years, and Poland has become a regular fixture on his calendar rather than an occasional stop. Audiences here have responded to the same mix of grand orchestral sound and playful showmanship that fills arenas everywhere he performs, and the Kraków date is expected to draw visitors from well beyond the city itself.
Expect a programme built for a big room: sweeping Strauss waltzes sitting alongside operatic arias, film themes and a handful of well-loved popular classics, all delivered with the costumes, lighting design and theatrical staging that have become part of the show’s identity. Guest vocalists and instrumentalists typically join the orchestra for several numbers, keeping the pacing varied across the evening.
Tauron Arena Kraków opened in 2014 and quickly became the largest indoor venue in Poland, built to host everything from ice hockey to major touring productions. For concerts the arena typically holds around 18,000 people, with a maximum configuration stretching to 22,000 — scale that suits a production with this much orchestral firepower and stage design.
Doors are expected to open roughly ninety minutes ahead of the 20:00 start, giving visitors time to find their seats and settle in before the music begins. The performance itself typically runs about two and a half hours in total, including a 20-minute interval partway through.
For anyone travelling in for the show, Kraków rewards a longer stay. The city’s medieval Old Town and Wawel Castle sit only a short ride from the arena, and the surrounding Czyżyny district has developed steadily around the venue since it opened, making a concert weekend easy to combine with a few days of sightseeing.
The Kraków date sits inside a wider Polish stretch of the 2027 tour, following performances in Gdańsk on 12 May and Gliwice just the night before on 14 May — a short but packed run that gives Polish audiences three chances within a single week to catch the orchestra live.
Whether it’s a first Rieu concert or a returning favourite, 15 May at Tauron Arena promises the waltzes, spectacle and audience singalongs that have made these shows a fixture across Europe. Tickets for Kraków are available now — early booking is recommended given the scale of interest each stop on this tour has attracted.
