Il Divo - Netherlands, Rotterdam - 5th May 2006

[Dave]

Media previews/reviews and fan reviews/photos of Il Divo's second of two concerts in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 5th May (preferably those mentioning Hayley!) should be posted in this thread, together with any follow-up comments.

By the rules of Proboards forums, only reviews and messages in English may be posted.

Please stay on topic to this concert; off topic matters should be discussed in a more suitable thread or board.

[Caitlin]

Reports from the Il Divo Forum have already begun to arrive.
More and more that I've read have been mentioning Hayley. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Posted by Ineke:

Hayley Westenra sings very very good, she's a very talented girl.

Posted by Nanis:

Hayley Westentra is soooo good..!!! Her voice is AMAZING!!! and she is still so young..!!! woooooowww..!!!

Posted by Marieke:

the concert was fabulous! hayley sang wonderful

Posted by Diane:

hayley was great, got her autograph!

Posted by Marlon:

Haley was absolutely stunning, really the voice of an angel!! I gave her a standing ovation at the end, and she also received some flowers, she was VERY happy with them!!

Posted by Charlotte:

Hayley sings great,really nice!

Posted by "Nelleke":

Hayley arrived earlier than the men. People recognized her, asked her for autographs and she posed for pictures.... we all wished her good luck with the singing and she thanked us. She also mentioned that this was the biggest crowed so far who was waiting for Il Divo. First Hayley... WOW!!! What a sweet girl... and a golden voice!! Since no one gave her something as a present last time we bought white roses for her. Leo gave her flowers just before the last song... she loved it. After the last song we (Jolanda and me) gave her the roses. She was touched! We thanked her and she shoke our hands.

These are fantastic!

<3 Caite

[stevemacdonald]

I gather than many Il Divo fans have now been to mutltiple concerts and it sure seems they enjoy Hayley more and more each time. At first they were mildly supportive. Now they're giving her sweet bouquets and standing o's.

I can certainly relate. The more I experienced Hayley singing live, the more my appreciation for her voice expanded. The basic rule, I bellieve is: The more you attend Hayley concerts the more you want to attend them. Or to put it more bluntly, the only real cure for a Hayley concert is another Hayley concert, and another, and another.

[Richard]

Gosh, the Divas have been busy this morning!

More from Il Divo's forum.

Leo wrote:-

Hayley arrived and spend some time with a couple of the people waiting, taking pictures and chatting a bit.
As she walked past the barriers to enter Ahoy, I think she was quite amazed at the number of people cheering for her

There is a picture of Hayley on this post.

Then Leo wrote:-

Starting with Hayley, cause she is part of the whole deal...

I think the crowd really responded to her, and she seemed quite at ease. Her singing... well I have said it before and I will say it again: AMAZING!!!

She doesn't have a big stage show, but heck, she doesn't need one.. her singing says it all...
Amazing Grace, a capella in front of I don't know how many people... sigh...

I gave her some roses with a card, just to show my appreciation, and I think she was, at first, quite surprised, but she did appreciate it...
It is not an easy task to open for the guys, but she does a great job, and I think people should recognize that...

I think Nelleke and Jolanda (is that correct?) gave her flowers as well, after her last song

There are three rather dark pictures of Hayley on this post.

Finally there are two pictures of Hayley taken by Joyce on this post.

I looks as though Hayley had a great night! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Richard

[postscript]

richnorri said:

Gosh, the Divas have been busy this morning!

More from Il Divo's forum.

Leo wrote:-

Hayley arrived and spend some time with a couple of the people waiting, taking pictures and chatting a bit.
As she walked past the barriers to enter Ahoy, I think she was quite amazed at the number of people cheering for her

There is a picture of Hayley on this post.

Then Leo wrote:-

Starting with Hayley, cause she is part of the whole deal...

I think the crowd really responded to her, and she seemed quite at ease. Her singing... well I have said it before and I will say it again: AMAZING!!!

She doesn't have a big stage show, but heck, she doesn't need one.. her singing says it all...
Amazing Grace, a capella in front of I don't know how many people... sigh...

I gave her some roses with a card, just to show my appreciation, and I think she was, at first, quite surprised, but she did appreciate it...
It is not an easy task to open for the guys, but she does a great job, and I think people should recognize that...

I think Nelleke and Jolanda (is that correct?) gave her flowers as well, after her last song

There are three rather dark pictures of Hayley on this post.

Finally there are two pictures of Hayley taken by Joyce on this post.

I looks as though Hayley had a great night! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Richard

Richard,
I think you provide an invaluable service with all these connections from the Il Divo site.

I think the second quote specifically is superb. If this is one person making the effort to respond and one person who is obviously there for Il Divo then who can gauge how many more may she have won over to her, introduced herself to, and who will follow trough with her in the future?

Perhaps, indeed, she has widened her fan base significantly.

Peter

[postscript]

stevemacdonald said:

I gather than many Il Divo fans have now been to mutltiple concerts and it sure seems they enjoy Hayley more and more each time. At first they were mildly supportive. Now they're giving her sweet bouquets and standing o's.

I can certainly relate. The more I experienced Hayley singing live, the more my appreciation for her voice expanded. The basic rule, I bellieve is: The more you attend Hayley concerts the more you want to attend them. Or to put it more bluntly, the only real cure for a Hayley concert is another Hayley concert, and another, and another.

In a nutshell, Steve, in a nutshell!

Peter

[Richard]

postscript said:

I think the second quote specifically is superb. If this is one person making the effort to respond and one person who is obviously there for Il Divo then who can gauge how many more may she have won over to her, introduced herself to, and who will follow trough with her in the future?
Perhaps, indeed, she has widened her fan base significantly.

Hello Peter!

Actually the first and second quotes in my previous post were both made by the same Il Divo fan (Leo), but there is no doubt that the Divas have really warmed to Hayley during the European leg of the world tour! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Caitlin]

More reports:

Posted by Marja:

During the break we saw Hayley signing at the merchandise stand.

Posted by Louise:

O, I must say that Hayley Westenra gave a great performance

Posted by Chaelyndra:

I went in and Hayley came at 8 o'clock. Wow, she's talented and got such a beautiful voice! And she's only 18 years old! We'll be hearing more about her in the future I hope.
I tried to take some pics of her but there was too less light and I could'nt use my flash from that far distance.

A couple of pictures signing items. It's the sixth post down (posted by Dorien) www.ildivo.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=12034&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=360

<3 Caite

[Richard]

Thanks for that Caite!

If the pictures are on the sixth post down, change the start number at the end of the url to 365, and the post will be at the top, like this:-

www.ildivo.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=12034&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=365

Scroll down to the 8th and 9th pictures on the post.

Richard

[Caitlin]

Thanks Richard! I was trying to remember how to do that but I couldn't. I know now!

<3 Caite

[Caitlin]

I do believe this is one of the first audio's we've come aross. It's Hayley singing Amazing Grace.

You can find it here: ildivo.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=12034&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=463
Posted by Chaelyndra:

Great you have something from hayley, Nathalie! I think she was great and my father thinks her voice is so beatiful that he wants the cd.

A picture of Nathalie with Hayley here (4th photo down):
ildivo.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=12034&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=468

<3 Caite

[Dave]

Thanks for those two links Caite!

I am so impressed by the audio (which I've already converted from the video .avi file to a windows media audio file) and also by the photo, that I've asked LadyNathalie for permission to host the converted audio and link to it here, and to repost the actual photograph in here. I hope to get an answer later on Sunday.

Some of the stuff coming out of Il Divo's forum is brilliant!

Oh, and while I remember, many thanks to you, Steve, Richard (and everyone else who's helped) for keeping up with and posting the "Hayley" stuff from Il Divo's forum. It was a real struggle for me to keep up with it all in the early days and now, I can leave most of it to you all and sometimes, I now get to bed as early as 3 am! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif Cheers guys.

Dave

[Caitlin]

No problem Dave! Here's another good remark!

Posted by Floor:

Well ofcourse as you all may know Hayley came to the stage with her absolutely amazing voice. I respect her for getting an audience going the way she did with minimum recourses. I was soo glad that she received flowers! I think she was soo overwhelmed by the gestures that she accidentely forgot to take one of the two given bouquets....but ofcourse she is forgiven

<3 Caite

[graemek]

Well Caite,
Thanks once more.
That Hayley Nathalie pic is now my desktop one. Lovely.
Audio clip was very impressive. I made it into an mp3.
Rotterdam in general has made quite a spectacular
HW response!
Graemek

Graeme, I deleted your test post, I'm sure you don't need it any more! Dave

[graemek]

Incidentally my wife's opinion re the Rotterdam
interest is the Dutch Name (=Westenra) reaction.
Graeme