Minogue, Ne-Yo to perform for Nobel Prize winners

Minogue, Ne-Yo to perform for Nobel Prize winners

Kylie Minogue and Ne-Yo will perform at a concert honouring the winner of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize next month.

The singers will take the stage at the 19th annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert on December 11 in Oslo, Norway.

Il Volo, Milow, Fanfare Ciocarlia and OqueStrada are also scheduled to perform, concert organisers announced today.

Founded by Alfred Nobel in 1901, the prestigious Nobel Prize is bestowed to individuals and organisations around the world for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.

The awards are administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

Laureates receive a medal, personal diploma and cash award.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to the European Union "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe", the organisation said.

This year's concert, in honour of the EU, will be hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker and Gerard Butler.

Previous Nobel Peace Prize concert performers include: Jennifer Hudson, Seal and Karpe Diem.

Underwood to play Maria in Sound of Music

Underwood to play Maria in Sound of Music

Carrie Underwood will star in a new television version of The Sound of Music.

The 29-year-old Grammy-winner has landed the role of Maria von Trapp in a forthcoming US broadcast based on the 1959 Broadway musical.

Julie Andrews most famously took on the role in an Oscar-winning movie adaptation released in 1965.

The television version will be a three-hour event.

It is scheduled for broadcast on NBC sometime during the holidays in 2013.

The network announced Carrie's casting on Friday.

'Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn't be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp,' Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said today. 'She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist,' he added.

The Sound of Music is based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, a memoir by the real-life Maria von Trapp. She was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.

The tale was adapted for a 1956 German film which then inspired Broadway's The Sound of Music.

The 1959 stage production featured music and lyrics penned by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Their songs My Favorite Things, Climb Ev''ry Mountain, Do-Re-Mi and the title song The Sound of Music became enduring musical favourites after Julie Andrews was cast in the big screen adaptation.