Strauss heirs must share opera royalties
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A court has ordered heirs of composer Richard Strauss to share royalties with the heirs of librettist and poet Hugo von Hoffmansthal for nine collaborations, including the popular operas "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Elektra."
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The performance rights organization that collects royalties from streaming music providers on behalf of recording artists and copyright holders, has offered small streamers a reduced rate that caps royalties collected at 10% to 12% of their annual revenue. But for selected streamers to qualify, they would need to sign an agreement with the SoundExchange organization that would include a cap on growth, and a possible penalty for growing too fast.
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The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  &#151; National Public Radio is teaming up with online radio broadcasters to appeal new music royalties that they say would put smaller operators out of business and force others to sharply scale back their online music offerings.
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Silvio Berlusconi was one of the  many billionaire holidaymakers forced this year to pay a  "luxury tax" on the island of Sardinia, to raise funds to pay  for vital services.
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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg.
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A longtime patron has pledged $35 million to the San Francisco Opera in one of the largest donations ever to an American opera company by a single benefactor.
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If a new online radio webcasting royalty rate, proposed last week by the Copyright Royalty Board of the US Library of Congress, is ratified and put into effect, online webcasting leader AOL Radio may receive a bill for copyright holders' royalties retroactive to 2006 amounting to $23.7 million, payable to a collective representing the US recording industry. And that's not the half of it.
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As the curtain falls on this year's  Bayreuth festival, intense speculation again surrounds who will  succeed Richard Wagner's octogenarian grandson at the helm one  of Europe's most famous operatic events.
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South Africa's highest court rules that gay people can inherit the property of their partners who die without a will.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who will be appointed to head the I.M.F. on Friday, will inherit an organization struggling to find a purpose in a vastly changed financial world.
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Opera Orchestra of New York is facing financial problems that could force it to curtail next seasonâs performances.
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Opera in Denmark has a new home after a wealthy businessman signed over a 2.5 billion-kroner (336 million euro, US$417 million) opera house on Copenhagen's waterfront to the government Friday.
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A collection of items belonging to the late opera star Maria Callas fetches 1.76m Euros (Â£1.26m) at auction.
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A court ruling bodes well for next-generation royalties.
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Every opera season demands a scene-chewing scandal to feed fansâ appetites for outsize drama, and this summer that niche has been filled in Europe by the new production here of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger.â
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The opera is in negotiations to build a new home on the site of the former American Red Cross New York headquarters near Lincoln Center.