Enter to win a week's
vacation to two to Austria, the beautiful
land of Mozart, Strauss and "The Sound of
Music." To enter simply fill out the form
below and answer the two questions.
 
OFFICIAL RULES
1. Eligibility.
Emerging Pictures presents
“The Sound of Austria Contest” (the
"Contest") is open to all males and females
who are at least 18 years of age and above.
Employees of Emerging Pictures, its
affiliate theatrical venues and/or its
advertising, promotion, or publicity
agencies and partners, and members of their
immediate families and households are not
eligible to enter. No purchase is necessary
to enter.
2. How to Enter.
The Contest entry period
begins on September 14, 2008 and ends on
March 15, 2009.
An entrant may enter the
contest one of three ways: (1) Fill out a
“Sound of Austria” contest postcard at a
participating Emerging Pictures venue (a
list of venues is available at
http://www.emergingpictures.com/opera_venues.htm)
which must include entrant’s name, e-mail
address, and answers to the qualifying
questions, and drop off the postcard at a
participating Emerging Pictures venue or
submit the postcard by mail; (2) Enter
online at
www.emergingpictures.com by clicking the
“Sound of Austria Contest” link and entering
the entrant’s name, e-mail address, and
answers to the qualifying questions; or (3)
Submit a postcard with the Entrant’s name,
e-mail address, and answers to the
qualifying questions to:
“The Sound of Austria
Contest”
c/o Emerging Pictures
245 W. 55th St.
New York, NY 10019
Limit one (1) submission per
entrant. Submissions become the property of
Sponsor, and will not be acknowledged or
returned.
3. Qualifying Questions
Regardless of entry method,
each Entrant must answer two qualifying
questions to be eligible to win the Grand
Prize. These are the qualifying questions:
(1)
Where was Mozart born – Italy or Austria?
(2)
Who sang Romeo at the 2008 Salzburg Festival
– Villazon or Vargas?
The questions are multiple
choice with two possible answers provided
for each. Entrants that answer both
questions correctly will be eligible for the
Grand Prize and will be pooled together as
“Eligible Entries.”
4. Drawing
One Grand Prize winner
(“Winner”) will be selected in a random
drawing on or about April 10, 2009 from the
aggregate of all eligible entries received.
Awarding of the Grand Prize will be
conducted by Emerging Pictures, whose
decisions are finals on all matters related
to the Contest. Emerging Pictures will
notify the Grand Prize winner via e-mail and
request a mailing address for mailing of an
Affidavit of Eligibility and Release to be
executed by the Winner. If the Winner cannot
be contact or if the Winner fails to provide
his/her mailing address within seventy-two
(72) hours of notification, an alternate
winner will be selected at random from the
remaining Eligible Entries. The Winner will
be required to sign and return by mail
within 21 days of receipt the Affidavit of
Eligibility and Release provided by Emerging
Pictures. If the the Winner fails to return
these forms within the time required, the
Grand Prize will be forfeited and awarded to
an alternate winner. Any prize notification
or prize returned as undeliverable will be
forfeited and awarded to an alternate
Winner.
4. Grand Prize.
The Grand Prize Winner
(“Winner”) will receive a one-week trip for
two vacation package to Austria. The
vacation package includes: two round-trip,
couch class airfare tickets to Vienna
(standard blackout restrictions apply), and
six nights stay in first class hotel
accommodations (based on double occupancy)
in Austria (defined as any combination of
Salzburg and Vienna overnight stays) which
will include service charges and daily
breakfast. Vacation package must be arranged
within one (1) year of award notification to
the Winner. Approximate retail value of the
Grand Prize is (US) $5000.
5. The Winner is responsible
for all expenses not expressly included in
connection with the Grand Prize including,
but not limited to, food, beverage,
transportation and entertainment costs in
Austria.
6. For copies of these
Official Rules, visit http://opera.emergingpictures.com.
By submitting an entry or accepting a prize,
each entrant agrees to be bound by decisions
of the Emerging Pictures and these Official
Rules and to comply with all international,
federal, state, and local laws and
regulations that apply to Entrant’s resident
country and to the United States (the
Sponsor’s resident country). All national,
federal, state, and local taxes are the sole
responsibility of the eventual winner. No
prize substitutions, transfers or cash
alternatives are permitted, except Sponsor
reserves the right to substitute prizes of
equal or greater value in Sponsor's sole
discretion.
7. By entering the Contest,
or accepting a prize, each entrant accepts
all of the conditions, restrictions,
requirements, and/or regulations required by
Sponsor. In addition, each entrant
represents and warrants that all information
contained in his/her Submission is true and
accurate.
8. Unless otherwise
prohibited by law, by entering the Contest
and/or accepting a prize, each entrant
grants to Sponsor the absolute right to use
such entrant’s name, likeness, photograph,
voice, address (city and state),
biographical information, Submission, and
any materials based thereon or derived
therefrom, or to refrain from so doing, in
any manner in any and all media, whether now
known or hereafter devised, anywhere in the
world in perpetuity for publicity purposes
and for purposes of advertising or trade in
promoting or publicizing Sponsor, without
compensation. Each entrant also agrees that
he or she shall not have a right of
approval, claim to compensation, or claim
(including, without limitation, claims based
on invasion of privacy, defamation, or right
of publicity) arising out of any use of the
entrant’s name, likeness, photographs,
voices, addresses (city and state),
biographical information, Submission, and
any materials.
9. By entering the Contest,
each entrant agrees to release, discharge,
and hold harmless Sponsor, its directors,
officers, employees, agents, successors, and
assigns, from and against any and all
claims, damages, injuries, trauma, deaths,
losses, rights, causes of action, actions,
suits, debts, sums of money, or other
liabilities, either at law or equity,
whether known or unknown, asserted or
non-asserted, arising from or in any way,
directly or indirectly, relating to the
entrant's participation in the Contest, the
awarding, acceptance, use, or misuse of the
Prize, or the use of such member's name,
likeness, photograph, voice, biographical
information, and/or Submission. Each
entrant represents and warrants that he or
she has the full right and authority to
grant the rights granted herein and that his
or her agreement to the terms hereof does
not conflict with any existing commitment on
his or her part. Contest is void where
prohibited, taxed, or otherwise restricted.
10. Sponsor and those working
for it or on its behalf will not be
responsible for lost, late or misdirected
e-mail or for Internet, computer hardware
and software, electronic, network, or
computer malfunctions or delays, or any
other technical error of any kind. Sponsor
reserves the right in its sole discretion to
cancel or modify all or any portions of the
Contest if, in its sole discretion, it
determines that for any reason the Contest
is not capable of running as originally
planned or if there is fraud or technical
errors or malfunctions, viruses, hackers, or
other reasons that compromise the fairness
or integrity of the Contest in any manner.
Entries are void if they contain
typographical or other errors. Entries
generated by a script, macro or other
automated means are void. Entries that are
incomplete, mechanically reproduced,
tampered with, inaccurate, forged,
misdirected, lost, late, delayed, irregular
in any way, or otherwise not in compliance
with these Official Rules are also void.
11. To obtain the name of the
Winner, send a self-addressed, stamped
envelope to The Sound of Austria Contest,
Contest Winners, c/o Emerging Pictures, 245
West 55 Street, 4th Floor, New York NY 10019
postmarked no later than June 15, 2009.
12. The Sponsor of the
Contest is Emerging Pictures, 245 W. 55th
Street, New York, NY 10019. |
