• Soprano Siphiwe McKenzie Edelmann and tenor César Augusto Gutiérrez will perform in
an operetta gala concert in the context of the Rheingau Festival with
the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne on 3 July.

• Natascha Petrinsky will sing in Mahler's Third Symphony in Rio de
Janeiro and Sao Paulo in July 2010.

• VMC is pleased to announce that Chen Reiss has signed a long-term
recording contract with Berlin Classics. The first recording is
scheduled for the spring of 2011.

•On 26 June 2010, Anne Schwanewilms performs Strauss's Four Last Songs and Mahler's Symphony no.
4 at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

• Susanna Martin perform in Paul Abraham’s operetta Ball im Savoy at the Cologne Philharmonie
on 25 June 2010. The WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne is conducted by Eckehard Stier.

• On 30 June and 4 July, 2010, Friedrich Haider conducts Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Roberto Devereux
at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

• Paul Armin Edelmann sings Papageno at the Opera Festival in St. Margarethen, Austria. Conductor: Manfred Waba.
The open-air performances are to be recorded for CD and DVD.
Dates in July: 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 29, 31. Dates in August: 1, 5, 7, 12, 14.

• Natascha Petrinsky will sing in Peter Stein's staging of Alban Berg's
opera "Lulu". This production, conducted by Daniele Gatti, is part of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen).

• On 20 June, 2010, Chen Reiss and Paul Armin Edelmann will give a recital with music by Alma & Gustav Mahler in Vilshofen, Germany (Europäische Festwochen Passau). Other performers in the programme, entitled "Alma Mahler – a Portrait of a Lady", are Stephan Matthias Lademann (piano) and Angela Winkler (narrator).

• On 19 and 20 June, 2010, Wolfgang Holzmair performs at Wigmore Hall. The entire weekend is dedicated to
the music written by composers in Theresienstadt.

• On Friday, June 11th, 2010, Barbara Emilia Schedel and Kremena
Dilcheva will perform in Gluck's "Le Cinesi" at Sanssouci Castle in
Potsdam. The orchestra l'arte del mondo is conducted by Werner Ehrhardt

• Pietro Rizzo will conduct the Oviedo Filarmonía on June 10th and 11th,
2010. The programme will be Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

• Juanita Lascarro will perform in "Armida - an intercultural opera pasticcio", with l'arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt,
in the Ulrichskirche in Halle/Saale on June 6th.

• Thomas Michael Allen will give two performances of Händel's "Messiah" with l'arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt.
The first performance will take place in Altenberg Cathedral near Cologne on June 4th, the second
in the Marktkirche in Halle/Saale on June 5th (Händelfestspiele).

• On June 2nd, 2010, Friedrich Haider will conduct the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in two concerts
(commencing at 7.30 pm and 10 pm, respectively) in the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Vesselina Kasarova and Mirijam Contzen are the soloists, and Roger Willemsen
will act as emcee.

• Thomas Michael Allen will perform with l'Orchestre de Poitou-Charentes (OPC - Poitiers - France),
singing Britten's Serenade for Tenor and Horn from May 24th to May 29th
(3 concerts on May 27, 28 and 29).

• Chen Reiss will sing the part of Blonde in Mozart's "Die Entführung
aus dem Serail" at this year's Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta
conducts performances on May 14th, 16th, 19th and 21st.

•On 20 May 2010, Anne Schwanewilms will sing the Tercet and Duet from Act Three of "Der Rosenkavalier"
by Richard Strauss in the Großer Saal of the Vienna Musikverein.
Georges Prêtre will conduct the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.

•On 16 May at 11 am, Philipp Pointner will conduct the WDR Radio Orchestra in a programme of music by
the Strauß family in the WDR Funkhaus in Cologne. The motto of this concert is
"Wine, Women and Song".

• On May 8th, 12th, 16th and 24th, soprano Susanna Martin will perform in P. Eötvös` opera "Love and other Demons”,
conducted by Markus Stenz, at Cologne Opera House.
•On May 9th, 2010, Susanna Martin will sing in F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Walpurgisnacht".
The concert will take place in the Kreuzkirche in Düsseldorf.

• Kay Stiefermann will sing at the Wiener Volksoper on 5 May 2010
the role of Graf Danilo in Lehar’s "Die lustige Witwe".

• Rainer Trost will be in Oviedo between April 23rd and 29th. With the
Oviedo Filarmonía conducted by Friedrich Haider, he will sing the part
of the Evangelist in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari´s opera Talitha Kumi, to be
performed on April 29th in the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo.

• Barbara Emilia Schedel and Kremena Dilcheva will take part in a
concertante performance of Gluck´s Le Cinesi on April 30th 2010 at 8
pm. L´arte del mondo, conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, is the orchestra
for this event at the Steinfurt Bagno Konzertgalerie.

• On April 29th, Chen Reiss will sing the part of Falke in Die Frau ohne
Schatten by Richard Strauss. This performance, conducted by Zubin
Mehta, is part of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.

• Anne Schwanewilms will sing Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony in Graz on
April 12 and 13, 2010. Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch.

• On 7 April 2010, the world-renowned soprano Anne Schwanewilms will give a lied recital in Eppan / South Tyrol in
the Raiffeisen-Forum of the Lanserhaus. The programme will feature a selection of songs by
Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. The artist will be accompanied by
pianist Charles Spencer.

• Mezzo soprano Kremena Dilcheva will sing works by Gustav Mahler, Morton Feldman, Alban Berg and Ernst Krenek
in the Hubert-Burda-Saal of the Jewish Centre in Munich (Jüdisches Zentrum Jakobsplatz). The
concert will take place on 24 March 2010; the Orchester Jakobsplatz
München will be conducted by Daniel Grossmann.

• On March 12th, 14th and 19th, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair will perform at the Hugo-Wolf-festival, which is
organised by the Austrian broadcaster ORF. All festival concerts will take place in the
RadioKulturhaus at 7.30 pm.

• Gramola DaCapo and VMC are pleased to announce that Mr. Rainer Trost will be interviewed by Dr. Wilhelm Sinkovicz
on March 19th at 6.30 pm. The conversation will take place at Gramola DaCapo,
Seilerstätte 30 (the corner of Krugerstraße), 1010 Vienna.

• Rainer Trost will sing the part of Pylade in Torsten Fischer`s new production of Gluck`s Iphigénie en Tauride at
the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Conducted by Harry Bicket,
performances will take place on
March 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th and 23rd.

• VMC is pleased to announce that, as of March 1st, 2010, it is taking on the exclusive representation of renowned
Spanish soprano Ainhoa Arteta
for Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

• Sopran Chen Reiss sings her debut in Paris as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, conducted by Daniele Gatti.
Performances take place at Théatre des Champs-Élysées
on February 24, 26, 28 and March 2, 2010.

• Star soprano Anne Schwanewilms will perform the Countess of W. A. Mozarts „Le nozze di Figaro“ on the
28th of February at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Further performances: March 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 27th.

• On February 07 the soprano Siphiwe McKenzie Edelmann will perform the female role Laya in the operetta
“Die Blume von Hawaii” by Paul Abraham at the Vienna Volksoper.
Other Performances. 07. 09. 12. 15. 18. 21. February
03. 13. 21. 24. 29. March 10. 12. April

• On January 21st, soprano Juanita Lascarro will sing the title role in
Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Theater an der Wien.
Further performances on January 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th and 31st.

• Gramola DaCapo and VMC are pleased to announce that Ms Juanita Lascarro will be
interviewed by Dr Otto Brusatti on January 22nd at 6.30 pm. The conversation will take place at Gramola
DaCapo, Seilerstätte 30 (the corner of Krugerstraße), 1010 Vienna.

Please confirm your attendance by calling 0676 603 4889 or sending an
e-mail to astnervmc@viemuc.com

• World-renowned baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, a new VMC artist, will sing the part of Sorceress in two performances
of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas". Concerts will take place at the Vienna Musikverein on January
9th and 10th, under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

• Soprano Chen Reiss will give her Musikverein debut in Vienna on 28 December 2009, accompanied by the Tonkünstler-Orchester under the baton of Alfred Eschwé.

Further concerts will take place on 29 December 2009 and on 4 January
2010. The programme will feature arias by Donizetti, Verdi and Lehár.

• Soprano Aga Mikolaj will give her debut with the Bamberg Symphony on
30 and 31 December, in two New Year's concerts conducted by Markus
Poschner.

• Conductor Manuel Hernández-Silva, currently Chief Conductor in
Córdoba, Spain, will give his debut with the Oviedo Filarmonía in a
New Year's Eve concert on 31 December.

• César Augusto Gutiérrez will sing a programme of arias and duets with
the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne on 18 and 20 December.

• VMC is pleased to announce the launch of a new CD bei Thomas Michael Allen.
Together with pianist Reinild Mees, who plays a fabulous Erard Concert Grand from 1844,
he has recorded twenty songs by Mendelssohn, complemented by a further six songs without words.

• Soprano Siphiwe McKenzie Edelmann and tenor César Augusto Gutiérrez will perform in a gala
concert in Minsk this coming November, to be
broadcast by Russian TV.

• Star soprano Anne Schwanewilms will give her debut as Roxana in Karol Szymanowski's Król Roger
on 2 November at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona.
Further performances
Vorstellungen on 6, 8, 10, 13, 16 November.

• Soprano Chen Reiss will give her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus on November 18th 2009.
• Chen Reiss will also sing the solo soprano in Haydn's Creation at the Herrenchiemsee
and Rheingau festivals on July 17 and 31.

• Thomas Michael Allen will sing the part of the Demon in Hans Werner
Henze's L'Upupa at the Semperoper in Dresden. Performances are
scheduled for November 8th, 14th and 16th 2009.

• On 16 October 2009, Barbara Emilia Schedel. will perform in the premiere of ACIS AND GALATHEA at the Theatre in Fürth.
• Barbara Emilia Schedel As Singer of the Year 2009, B.E.S. will receive the "Bayerischer Theaterförderpreis" on 19 October 2009, in an awards ceremony at the State Theatre in Nuremberg. The prize is donated by th e German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Ms Schedel had been nominated by a specialist jury consisting of Bayerischer Rundfunk journalists as well as directors of broadcasting institutions.

• Manuel Hernández-Silva will conduct the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra on October 12th, 2009 in Prague.
On the program: The second suite from de Falla`s "El Sombrero de Tres Picos", Ravel`s concert
for piano and orchestra G Major and the 4th symphony by Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

• B.E.S. will sing Mozart's Concert Aria K 505 in a gala concert in Mannheim (Rosengarten) on 29 January 2010. Conductor:
Thomas Fey, Pianist: Fazil Say.

• Matthias Klink will give his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 23 September 2009,
singing the role of Tamino in Mozart's "The Magic Flute".
Performances are: 23, 26, 30 September

• Melba Ramos sings the part of "Ariadne" in Richard Strauss "Ariadne
auf Naxos" at the Volksoper Wien, conducted by Roberto Paternostro.

• Soprano Aga Mikolaj is scheduled to record a CD of arias by Mozart and R. Strauss in late September 2009. Karl Sollak will conduct the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne.

• The Soprano Sylvia Greenberg and the Tenor Cesar Gutierrez singing in the Kölner Philharmonie
the Sinfonie N. 8 in Es Dur from Gustav Mahler on 26. and 27. Juni 2009.

• Soprano Chen Reiss is singing the role of Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in a new production at the Ludwigsburg Festival. Performances will take place: June 27, 28, 30 and July 1.

• Star soprano Anne Schwanewilms will give a recital with songs by Debussy, Wolf and Strauss at the
Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on 28 May 2009.

• The conductor Karl Sollak will conduct a gala concert in Mallorca on 2 August 2009, with soloists Johan Botha, Bernd
Weikl and Kurt Rydl.

• Aga Mikolaj will sing the part of "La Contessa di Almaviva"
in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Bavarian State Opera on May 20th.

• Virtuoso violinist Eung Soo Kim and pianist Moon Young Chae will present their new CD, "Duo con Voce",
on May 14th at Gramola DaCapo in Vienna.

On May 24th, Eung Soo Kim will play Joseph Haydn's Violin Concerto in C in the Konzerthaus in Vienna.

• Chen Reiss sings her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss.
Performances are: April 17., 20., 23, 2009.

• Cristina Obregón sings the part of "Corinna" in Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" at the Teatro alla Scala.
Performances are: April 19; May 3, 10, 2009.
The Soprano presented this part with great succes at the Gran Teatro Liceu, Barcelona.

• Internationally acclaimed Strauss-soprano Anne Schwanewilms will perform the "Four last Songs" with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi at the Vienna Musikverein on the 20th of April 2009.

•  In April 7. 2009 Ms. Chen Reiss will sing the soprano solo in the Brahms Requiem at the
Philharmonie in Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

• The soprano Aga Mikolaj sings Donna Elvira from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Opera of Berlin, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The performances will take place on March 15th, 20th, 26th and 31st 2009.

• The tenor Matthias Klink returns to the Vienna State Opera, where he already celebrated a huge success as Tamino
in The Magic Flute. He will give his debut as Matteo in Arabella by Richard Strauss. The performances will take
place on 27 and 30 March and on 2 and 7 April 2009.

• Anne Schwanewilms sings the title role in "Arabella" by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera.
Premiere: Sunday, 25th January 2009 at 6 p.m.
Additional performances:
January 29th,
February 9th, 1st, 4th, 8th, 14th, 26th
and March1st, 2009, always at 7 p.m.

• The virtuoso violinist Eung Soo Kim will perform Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, concert for violin op. 64, for the composers 200th birthday with the Sinfonie Orchester Berlin on 21st February 2009 at 8 p.m.
The concert will be conducted by Kazuo Kanemaki and presented in the Berliner Philharmonie.

• The project “Hausmusik” with soprano Sylvia Greenberg and pianist David Aronson
is being published on CD by telos music vocal.

• Swiss tenor Andreas Scheidegger is singing the part of Nencio in an operatic concert of Haydn's “L'infedelta delusa”
with the WDR orchestra in Cologne in January 2009.
The performance will be recorded on CD.

• Chen Reiss will also sing the part of Sandrina in the operatic concert of Haydn's “L'infedelta delusa”
with the WDR orchestra in January 2009. For more information about the singer: www.chenreiss.com.

• Guillermo Garcia Calvo conducts the Nutcracker at the Volksoper Vienna and
the Wiener Staatsoper on November 23rd, 2008.   More Performances:
at the Volksoper: December: 5th. 8th. 13th.
Wiener Staatsoper: December: 23rd. 25th. 27th. 29th. and January 2009: 2nd. 4th.

• Pietro Rizzo conducted the programme “Geliebtes Vergessen” with songs and arias for soprano and clarinet, which proved a big success. Soprano Chen Reiss was accompanied by the WDR orchestra. The solo clarinet was played by Andy Miles.