VietNamNet Bridge – The reputed concert, Toyota Classics 2008, will take place at the Hanoi Opera House on November 12 with the popular Operetta Vienna Orchestra, world’s leading tenors and sopranos, and the only Vietnamese artist, soprano Nguyen Bich Thuy performing.

The Operetta Vienna Orchestra.

The Operetta Vienna Orchestra gathers the top Australian artists who are playing for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the National Vienna Opera Theatre, under the direction of conductor Siegfried Andraschek. The orchestra will be performed in Vietnam for the first time, with only one show under the annual 11^th Toyota Classics concert in Hanoi.

The concert will see the presence of a German tenor, Michael Suttner, and an Italian soprano from Poland.

Vietnam’s soprano, Nguyen Bich Thuy, who won the first price of the International Opera Contest in Bangkok in 2002, will share the stage with world famous artists in the Toyota Concert 2008. She will be the only one Vietnamese artist joining the show.

Classic music works by J. Strauss, Mozart, Franz Lehar, and S. Andraschek will be played in this special concert.

Besides Bangkok (Thailand), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Manila (Philippines), Seoul (South Korea), etc., Hanoi is one of eight cities that will host the Toyota Concert 2008 in the 19^th year of the Toyota Classics Concert Series, which will run from October 30 to November 16, 2008.

Ticket revenues will be presented to the Dong Lenh Leprosy Village and the K10 Nam Din Leprosy Clinic in the northern provinces of Tuyen Quang and Dien Bien.

Hanh Phuong