Over the past two years, Opera Europa members and IAMA as well as OMAI Artist Managers have come together at various online events to seek dialogue and mutual understanding amidst a crisis which has left many artists without their livelihood, entailing substantial losses for artist managers.
After 25 months of cancellations, postponements and contracts that have been re-written five times for the same show, the AAP forum reunited in person in Berlin to channel positive learnings that will inform future contracts. As OMAI was holding its annual conference at Deutsche Oper, we held two joint sessions to broaden the common ground between the companies and the managers as well as to illustrate best practise examples.