BACKPPL to make advance payment to support members during pandemic
PPL has announced an amendment to its annual payment schedule in order to bring forward part of its June distribution to members during the Covid-19 pandemic.
On 30 April 2020, PPL will make an advance payment of £23.9 million to more than 15,000 performers and recording rightsholders. They are set to receive payment either as direct members of PPL or indirectly through other collective management organisations.
PPL said the action is being taken to further support members during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The payment will bridge the gap between payments made in March and June as part of PPL’s annual distribution schedule. It will include revenues from both PPL’s UK licensing activities and international collections.
The collection society said that including an advance payment in April provides “much needed support for members at a time when cash flow is critical”.
Bayreuth-Chefin Katharina Wagner langfristig erkrankt
Die Leiterin der Bayreuther Festspiele, Katharina Wagner, hat eine längerfristige Erkrankung öffentlich gemacht. Ihr Amt bei den Richard Wagner-Festspielen wird sie “bis auf weiteres” nicht ausführen können. Für Wagner wird der ehemalige kaufmännische Geschäftsführer Heinz-Dieter Sense einspringen. In Bayreuth wird er auf Wunsch der Gesellschafterversammlung und des Verwaltungsrats Katharina Wagner kommissarisch vertreten und außerdem die Rolle als dritter Geschäftsführer übernehmen, um die Geschäftsfähigkeit der Festspiele zu sichern. Sense arbeitete von 2013 bis 2016 in Bayreuth, davor war er unter anderem an der Deutschen Oper Berlin angestellt.
Bayreuth head Katharina Wagner on long-term illness
The director of the Bayreuth Festival, Katharina Wagner, has made a long-term illness public. She will not be able to perform her duties at the Richard Wagner Festival “until further notice”. The former commercial director Heinz-Dieter Sense will stand in for Wagner. In Bayreuth, he will provisionally represent Katharina Wagner at the request of the shareholders’ meeting and the board of directors and will also take on the role of third managing director in order to ensure that the Festspiele remains a viable business. Sense worked in Bayreuth from 2013 to 2016, before that he was employed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, among other places.
Coronavirus: Jonas Kaufmann et Ludovic Tézier lancent une pétition sur Change.org
Jonas Kaufmann et Ludovic Tézier sont à l’initiative d’une pétition pour soutenir et préserver la culture et en particulier le secteur de l’opéra particulièrement menacé par la crise du coronavirus. Sur la plateforme Change.org, le ténor allemand et le baryton français, particulièrement investis et soutenus par leurs consœurs et confrères pour soutenir le monde lyrique, en appellent aux dirigeants européens à qui ils demandent de tout mettre en œuvre pour préserver, et même sauver, un secteur artistique dont le modèle économique est gravement menacé par la crise actuelle. Traduit en 5 langues (Allemand, Français, Anglais, Espagnol et Italien), l’argumentaire qui accompagne la pétition invite « humblement, à signer cette pétition, afin d’exprimer l’adhésion à l’idée d’une société où le beau et la culture ne doivent pas disparaître et d’une Europe qui a le devoir de pérenniser le plus beau legs de sa propre civilisation: l’Art ».
Coronavirus: Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier launch a petition on Change.org
Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier have initiated a petition to support and preserve culture and in particular the opera sector, which is particularly threatened by the coronavirus crisis. On the Change.org platform, the German tenor and the French baritone, particularly invested and supported by their sisters and brothers to support the opera world, appeal to European leaders to whom they ask to do everything possible to preserve, and even save, an artistic sector whose economic model is seriously threatened by the current crisis. Translated into 5 languages (German, French, English, Spanish and Italian), the argument that accompanies the petition invites “humbly, to sign this petition, in order to express support for the idea of a society where beauty and culture must not disappear and for a Europe that has the duty to perpetuate the most beautiful legacy of its own civilization: Art”.