Barbara Hannigan bags 100 grand
mainThe Canadian soprano and conductor has been named winner of Denmark’s Léonie Sonning Music Prize for 2020. It’s worth 100,000 Euros.
Do agents take a cut of these prizes? Just wondering.
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Talking about Hannigan (in English):
ttps://basiaconfuoco.com/2018/06/27/barbara-hannigan-i-sing-everything-as-if-it-were-
excuses: here is the right link:
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2018/06/27/barbara-hannigan-i-sing-everything-as-if-it-were-mozart/
Question: Do agents take a cut of these prizes?
Answer: In this case no (I know it for sure). And some enlightened artists even use such prizes to finance projects.
‘Do agents take a cut of these prizes? Just wondering’
An artist friend of ours fell out with his agent over this. He won a valuable art prize and his agent took the same cut as he’d have got from the sale of a painting.
The artist claimed the agent hadn’t done anything to help him win the prize and demanded the money back.
The artist is right. I’m hearing this practice is creeping in among agents.
That is disturbing. Please…did the agent arrange the prize?
(By the way, Miss Hannigan is BRILLIANT.)
What if the agent arranged the sales of paintings and a show at a major museum that resulted in the prize?
For a singer: perhaps the agent arranged the singer to sing at the correct places at the correct time in the correct role, and for the right critics to attend…
Always a bit more complicated.
Another proof that fake classical music is alive and well.
When you can sing and conduct Ligeti at the same time, you’ll have something to talk about, Ben.