Amazon.com LiveBid Auctions Connects Online Community to Washington Opera Benefit Auction.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- Travel, Sports, and Arts Packages Highlight Fundraising Effort for World-renowned Opera Company The Washington Opera will use Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) LiveBid Auctions to connect online bidders to its benefit auction on Saturday, Nov. 20, at La Maison Francaise. This is the first time that Amazon.com. LiveBid Auctions, the leading provider of live-event auctions on the Internet, has held a LiveBid event in the nation's capital. Some 600 guests are expected at La Maison Francaise (the Embassy of France) at 4101 Reservoir Road. The auction will begin at 7 p.m. with bidding on the more than 280 items in the silent auction. The live auction will begin at 9:30 p.m. EST, both at the Embassy and for online bidders wherever they may be. The auction will raise money for the Washington Opera, which has brought opera to the nation's capital for more than four decades. A catalogue of 20 live auction items is now available online for interested bidders to preview by clicking on the Washington Opera event from http://livebid.amazon.com. Using Amazon.com LiveBid Auctions, Internet participants can bid in real time along with auction attendees via a live Web cast. Interested Internet bidders can easily pre-register online. The deadline for Internet registration is Friday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m. EST. Internet participants can also bid on 28 items from the silent auction by visiting http://s1.amazon.com/seller/washington-opera until 5 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 21. The highlight of the auction -- especially for opera lovers -- will be the historic 1984 Cadillac limousine donated by Washington Opera Artistic Director Placido Domingo Noun 1. Placido Domingo - Spanish operatic tenor noted for performances in operas by Verdi and Puccini (born in 1941) Domingo . The limousine carried Domingo to his legendary performances at the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years. The benefit auction will go far beyond the world of opera, offering one-of-a-kind items and packages that appeal to a wide variety of people. -- Sports fans can win an exciting Super Bowl 2000 package, personally donated by National Football League President Paul Tagliabue. The package includes tickets to the game itself, air transportation, three nights at the Hyatt Regency Hotel The Regency Hotel was a hotel in Denver, Colorado. Built in the 1960s to serve as a regional convention center, it was famous locally for its large gold dome and the luxury of the rooms within. in Atlanta, and the privilege of being Tagliabue's guests at the pre-game Saturday night Super Bowl Party and the VIP pre-game brunch. -- For travel and adventure lovers, the auction includes a train trip on the celebrated Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, beginning in Venice at the Hotel Cipriani and ending in London. The package includes a private compartment on the train, air transportation, and two nights at the Sheraton Park Sheraton Park is a new luxury development of houses on the site of a former teacher training college at Nevilles Cross, Durham City The development of the site is a combination of Barratt and Bett houses. Tower Hotel in London. -- Original artwork, such as Andy Warhol's Flowers No. 70, French impressionist Edouard Vuillard's pencil sketch Femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. et Jeune Fille a Table, Bull Head II, by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, 1977 Presidential Inauguration, by American artist Robert Rauschenberg, and La Lecture, by 20th-century French artist Fernand Leger Noun 1. Fernand Leger - French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) Leger , will be included in the auction. -- For the latest in automotive transportation, auction participants can bid on a Volkswagen new Beetle The Volkswagen New Beetle is a compact car introduced by Volkswagen in 1998, drawing heavily on the design cues of the original Beetle. Based on a Volkswagen Golf, the "retro" design proved to be more successful in some markets than in others. , as well as a sleek Cadillac deVille DTC DTC See: Depository Transfer Check DTC See: Depository Trust Company DTC See Depository Trust Company (DTC). , complete with Nuance leather seats adjusted to memory, Bose 275-watt sound, and East African Adj. 1. East African - of or relating to or located in East Africa Zebrano wood trim. -- A once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Katie Couric's guest at NBC's Today, including a VIP behind-the-scenes tour of the studio, awaits this package's winning bidder and three friends. -- Fans of politics can bid on History of Vice Presidents, a book written by Senator Mark Hatfield Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922) is a former United States Senator and Governor of Oregon. He is a member of the Republican Party. Biography Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon,[1] and the Senate Historical Office and autographed by Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore , President George Bush, and President Gerald Ford. In addition, two American flags will be auctioned off -- one to fly over the U.S. Capitol on the day of the winning bidder's choice (donated by Senator and Mrs. Ted Stevens) and the other to be flown over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 1, 2000 (donated by Senator and Mrs. Patrick Leahy). -- And there are plenty of items for opera aficionados, as well, including a Three Tenors CD signed by Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti Noun 1. Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor (born in 1935) Pavarotti , and Jose Carreras and hard-to-come-by tickets for the Metropolitan Opera's Ring Cycle, scheduled for April 24 to 29, 2000, for the storied Glyndebourne, and for the Paris Opera The Paris Opéra may refer to:
including travel on the Concorde and accommodations at the Ritz Hotel. "Not only does this give Amazon.com customers the opportunity to bid on an amazing assortment of merchandise, it also lets them help one of our country's most prestigious and respected arts organizations," said Matt Williams Matt Williams can refer to different people:
"I can't remember ever seeing such an exceptional assortment of goods available in an auction," said Domingo. "An auction like this is a great way to celebrate opera in the nation's capital." Robert Craft, President of the Washington Opera Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , said, "This collaboration with Amazon.com offers a tremendous opportunity for people worldwide to compete in the fun and, at the same time, help play a role in bringing wonderful opera to all of us here in the Washington area." About the Washington Opera The Washington Opera, now in its fourth season under the helm of Artistic Director Placido Domingo, brings superb opera to residents and visitors alike to the nation's capital throughout the opera season. Among this season's highlights is French composer Jules Massenet's masterpiece Le Cid
Le Cid is a tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille and published in 1636. It is based on the legend of El Cid. , starring Domingo, in its first fully staged performance in America since 1902. About Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries) is the Internet's No. 1 music, No. 1 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and video, and No. 1 book retailer. Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards See e-card. . Amazon.com lists more than 18 million unique items in categories including books, CDs, toys, electronics, videos, DVDs, computer games, tools, equipment, and home improvement. Through Amazon.com zShops, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's more than 13 million customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, any seller can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline payments. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. Amazon.com's All Product Search scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the Web to help customers find merchandise that is not available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com Auctions, or Amazon.com zShops, making Amazon.com the shopping destination to find anything. Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crewmembers dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present. Amazon.com also operates Amazon.com LiveBid Auctions (http://livebid.amazon.com), the leading provider of live-event auctions on the Internet. Amazon.com has invested in leading Internet retailers that are improving the lives of customers by making shopping easier and more convenient: drugstore.com, an online retail and information source for health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy, at www.drugstore.com; Pets.com, the online leader for pet products, expert information and services, at www.pets.com; HomeGrocer.com, the first fully integrated Internet grocery-shopping and home-delivery service, with operations in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , at www.homegrocer.com; and Gear.com, which offers brand name sporting goods at prices from 20% to 90% off retail, at www.gear.com. Amazon.com also has a minority interest in Della & James, which brings together leading retailers with gift registry, expert advice, and personalized gift suggestions to help everyone give better gifts, at www.della.com. This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risks of system interruption, management of potential growth, risks related to auction services, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended Dec. 31, 1998 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarters ended March 31, 1999 and June 30, 1999. |
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