Barbara Hannigan bags 100 grand

Barbara Hannigan bags 100 grand

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norman lebrecht

February 02, 2019

The 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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  • Basia Jaworski says:
    February 2, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    Talking about Hannigan (in English):

    ttps://basiaconfuoco.com/2018/06/27/barbara-hannigan-i-sing-everything-as-if-it-were-

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  • X.Y. says:
    February 2, 2019 at 9:38 pm

    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.

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  • Minutewaltz says:
    February 3, 2019 at 9:00 am

    ‘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.

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    • norman lebrecht says:
      February 3, 2019 at 9:02 am

      The artist is right. I’m hearing this practice is creeping in among agents.

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      • Tiredofitall says:
        February 3, 2019 at 10:32 am

        That is disturbing. Please…did the agent arrange the prize?

        (By the way, Miss Hannigan is BRILLIANT.)

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        • Saxon Broken says:
          February 5, 2019 at 6:37 pm

          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.

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  • Ben says:
    February 3, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    Another proof that fake classical music is alive and well.

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