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New DG Best Practice: Model Billing Provision for Opera
The Dramatists Guild has observed that opera companies in the 21st century have been trying to grow their audiences and develop their art form beyond the presentation of revivals of the established canon of works. To do so, some companies are commissioning a wider array of contemporary playwrights to write original libretti for new operas.
Due to the ongoing efforts of the Guild, when playwrights have written the books for new stage musicals, they have been given authorial...