Head of the Armenian delegation for Eurovision 2011 Gohar Gasparyan said that Armenia’s Emmy will participate in the first semi-final of the Eurovision 2011 on May 10, according to the Semi-Final Allocation Draw for the song contest.

Representatives of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, San Marino and other countries will perform the same day, Gasparyan told a press conference in Yerevan.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will be the 56th annual Eurovision Song Contest. It will take place in Dusseldorf, Germany, following Germany's win in the 2010 Contest with Lena Meyer-Landrut’s song “Satellite.” The contest will be held in Düsseldorf's Esprit Arena, which beat out three challenging venue locations across Germany in a bidding phase in late 2010. The dates set for the two semi-finals are 10 May and 12 May 2011, with the final planned for the evening of 14 May 2011. So far, forty-one countries have confirmed their participation in the contest. Returns include Austria which last participated in 2007, Italy which last participated in 1997, and San Marino which last participated in 2008.