A special benefit concert at this year's ultra-exclusive Salzburg Festival to raise money for flood-hit Pakistan,

Russian soprano to headline at gala for Pakistan

Updated at: 1437 PST, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 VIENNA: Russian superstar soprano, Anna Netrebko, will headline a special benefit concert at this year's ultra-exclusive Salzburg Festival to raise money for flood-hit Pakistan, organisers said. Netrebko will appear alongside many of the stars of this year's festival including her Uruguayan partner, baritone Erwin Schrott, at a gala performance on Thursday evening in Salzburg's swish Haus fuer Mozart theatre, according to a statement released late Sunday. Tickets, which go on sale Monday, will cost between 40-280 euros (51-356 dollars). The proceeds will go to victims of the flooding in Pakistan, the worst in the country's history affecting 20 million people and an area the size of England.