Win Tickets To See Angela Gheorghiu Live In Australian Concert

Enter here for your chance to win tickets to Angela Gheorghiu's upcoming appearance in Australia (dinner included!). The press release and concert program can be seen after the jump.

Get Your Bake On! Check Out MET Gingerbread Contest

Celebrate the season and the Met’s holiday presentation of Hansel and Gretel, by baking your favorite opera characters! Enter here.
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS:
(1) Bake up a batch of gingerbread cookies and decorate them as your favorite opera characters.
(2) Upload a photo of your best cookie creation.
(3) Get all your friends to vote! The gingerbread character with the most votes will win a prize from the Met!
WIN A SWEET PRIZE:
Most Votes >> 4 prime orchestra tickets to any Met production in the Spring 2012 (exclusions apply)
DON’T FORGET TO SET THE TIMER!
• Enter by 11:59 PM EST on Saturday, January 7
• Vote from 12:00 PM EST on Thursday, December 1 until 11:59 PM EST on Saturday, January 7
• Winner selection is Monday, January 9

Some fun entries so far:

Where in the Opera Would Purcell Place the Product Exactly?

"Wellaflex Silvikrin, the UK’s No1 Hairspray has been trusted by generations of British women for over 50 years to offer reliable and flexible 24hr hold at a smart price, helping to give women the confidence to know they are set and ready for the day, prepared for wherever their social calendar takes them. To celebrate its Heritage, Wellaflex Silvikrin is now the proud official sponsor of English Touring Opera’s production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and we are offering you two tickets to attend the Opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre on November 17, 2011. What’s more, you will also win a year’s supply of Wellaflex Silvikrin Hairspray! A classic, but refreshed, hairstyle will give you the finishing touches to your look for such an occasion and ensure you and your friends are ‘set and ready’ for your night at the Opera. The latest Wellaflex Silvikrin Hairspray range offers reliable, long-lasting hold, whilst keeping your style flexible. The Classic range includes five great variants, providing five levels of hold to suit every hair style including Firm, Flexible, Natural, Secure and Maximum Hold." [Source]

This isn't the first time hair products have crossed over into the opera world. Check out the commercial after the jump.

Another Drawing to See Anna Netrebko Perform Live

"Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell!"

Radeberger Pilsner, favorite beer of Vladimir Putin during his KGB agent days in 1980s Dresden, has snagged soprano Anna Netrebko for the "Nacht der Stars" concert on February 24, 2012 at the Dresdener Semperoper. Audience members will truly have to be lucky because tickets are not for sale with this event. There will be a drawing for 400 pairs of tickets to the event (in case you missed the Metropolitan Opera drawing for the Anna Bolena dress rehearsal). Enter here. One more image for the campaign is after the jump.
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Calling All Sophisticated Ladies: You Could Be a Cover Girl

The latest release from Charlie Haden & Quartet West, titled Sophisticated Ladies, is now running a contest for lucky ladies to "win a chance to have your picture on a limited edition vinyl artwork, win gig tickets and a host of luxurious products and prizes from Le Metier de Beaute." The competition is geared toward women who possess qualities as defined by the term sophisticated, like "elegant, sense of style, cosmopolitan, intelligent, intellectual, worldly, experienced, complex, informed, modern...." All entries must be received by March 31, 2011, to be eligible. Enter here.