Stevie Wonder performed at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on a date his Dutch audience will not quickly forget, with De Telegraaf reporting that the singer held the venue in a state of rapture across a three-hour show built on what the paper calls an iconic masterpiece. The Telegraaf's headline credits Wonder with blowing the roof off the hall.
Other Dutch outlets reached similar conclusions. De Volkskrant described the evening as a celebration and counted itself lucky to have been there, while Het Parool called the nostalgic performance by Wonder, 76, enough to give listeners chills. AT5, meanwhile, aired the reaction of Elias Mazian, who described himself as a major Wonder fan and called the singer a child prodigy who delivered on that early promise.
The coverage places the Amsterdam date within a wider run of European shows. De Standaard reviewed a separate Wonder concert in Cologne and awarded it five stars, writing that he demonstrated the kind of inspiration the world needs. Taken together, the reviews suggest a tour on which Dutch and Belgian critics found the veteran performer in strong form rather than coasting on his catalogue.
The Ziggo Dome set was evidently a long one, and the Telegraaf's framing of it as a masterwork implies a career-spanning programme rather than a short greatest-hits outing, though the available reports give no further detail on the setlist or guests.
What to watch next: whether the remaining dates on Wonder's European run draw the same response from critics outside the Netherlands and Belgium.