The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-04-08

PAID per receipts in my possession,
to Miss Borghese tor her services,
her benefit not included. ..... so, $50
Do to the second singers, choristers,
&c. ............ 1911 81
To to signor Antognin per agree
Do DIOR Tor dresses and music to complete
the four operas performed during
Do for ' new dresses for Miss Borshssc '
in said performances .......... 70 IS
Do Tor dresses and music, to complete
the other operaa to be performed BY
Expenses r paid for the second parts and
choristers, during week, from the
day OF their engagement in Wash
ington, d f, up to the day Of their
arrival in New York, their maintsn-
ance there, transport Of Effects jour
ney to this city, &c.. $50 5,l3e 10
sum remaining to the company for two
This sum equally divided between the members Of the
company viz sgnor rerozzi s,snors a., vaellnu and
1865 cog each per month"; $40 40 each for each perform
ance as we appeared twentysx times, not including
Paimos benefit, during the And this the exact
amount received by each member OF my company out Of
which they have had to pay their daily expenses.
Said contemplate amount may be slightly increased by
the of sios due the company BY Mr. Palmo. this
being balance Of accounts betw Pamo and the
pany remaining unsettled which hoped he will &C
quit.
In continuation. the public know that although
pany yet charge has been made for their contrary
to custom in all the Theatres in the world
Apart from this neither asked nor received the least
remuneration as Director General" office OF much
responsibility and immense labor the duties of which,
however did my best to discharge to my zeal to
please the public in general the patrons Of the Opera in
particular, and my own companions.
This noble disnteresedness has only met with insults
such scrlbbers and prattlers have reenessy and
basey attacked my probty, TO blush But respect my
self too much to consider them any farther worthy my
attention, that of any honest member Of society.
Should any observations against this statement be
ma made by any who take pleasure in mnsng in
suspicious and doubts the integrity of nofensive be-
ings expect from their condor to be made acquainted
with such observations as am utterly ignorant OF the
English language, and consequently read
| papers. l have only to remark, now, that this Err
Pose made for my own satisfaction well that of
the public, whose
Humble and devoted Servant am.
ATTiLlO VALTELLINA.
New York, April 4,h. 1874
sIGNOR PALMO's REPLY TO VALTELLINA
mot translated from the Italian
SATURDAY, 9th April. lsl4.
Sgnor Pamo agreed to give the hall Of the full receipts
including music and be furnished by Valteli
ma Co.
valtellina charges against 1915, for dresses and
Respecting the charge $3.50 for Washington expenses
for journey up to the day ofthe arrival Of the Companyat
pany OF Vaitena we're directed to make agreement with
Mr. Simpson, Park Theatre and not with him. and that he
never consented to pay Washington expenses merely to
give them half Of the clear receipts according to his
written contract
signor valtellna stated that no charge made by
him for the loan Of wardrobe and musical parts for the
company. Signor Pamo has paid wardrobe aud music
nightly according to his agreement, for which he
compelled to pay him the half of the clear receipts
signor Palmo agreed compensate signor Val
elina as mana having consented in his contract to
Pamo observes that it would have better for his
erest he had during his management, more gratifed
The mos. important point in the statement of valtena
remaing unsettled, the amount Of $f05 which sum Mr.
Pamo has paid this day, and he has no claim on him
whatever.
Now respecting Signor Antognni what should Mr.
Pamo have said respecting the charge oi 1913 % that
on single night and tina. only to disgust the public
Now let it be observed Antognini the resolution
to sing only to be en- tiled to be paid and to prevent Mr.
Pamo bringing action against va,ellns, having pro.
missed that Antognin would appear in the first opera of
hoarsencss and postponed his appearance until Lucia d
Lammermoor. on which opera he was compelled to sub
Bat,ice ia Tsnda in which opera dsgraced the per
formance under such preexas said before shows clearly
he acted in combination with vaeliina in order to pre-
vent any legal proceedings
Therefore, the whole Of this results in the overcharge in
his circular Of the following amounts
saic and %srdrose double charge 90
Ridiculous charge of Washington travelling ex-
penses to this city. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50 90
Total. .Si,i3o 70
This sum is taken by him and supposed to be divided
with the company. Add this with the statement Of
suit would be that they would have received each
than 5000 for the 81 representations.
Ii will be seen by this that our original statement
substantially correct II seems that nearly
$l4 600 was received during the past season, and
that it was about equally divided between Pamo
and the troupe In making his statement, Signor
Vaellina lnduges in some remarks which indicate
good deal of bad temper, and show at once that
he made great mistake in refusing to play Bsrto-
10. That is precisely his character to title. Bar
tolo is always in fury-always in bad temper-al-
ways in trouble. So is Valtellna, as appears from
his own statement Therefore, he ought, by all
means, to play Bartolo for that is precisely him.
Had the part been written for Valtellina, Bartolo
couldn't have been more like-Vaellina.
After all the points of difficulty have been ar
ranged amongst all parties, it appears that the only
difficulty now is to obtain guarantee of the fulfil
ment of the terms of the rc-engagement and make
the troupe of their money De Begins is
very liberal, and offers to do all that But the
troupe want something more. They want guar
antec of certain subscribers that they will get their
money. We are afraid, however, if the next sea
son depends on that, there will be no next season
at all. 1t is said that if the guarantee be OBJ
tanned, the first representation will be on the 10Th
ofthe present month. But, as we sad in that case
we set it down that there will be no opera. And,
in the meantime, we must insist on the mission of
agent to Italy. Ample materials can there be
collected, superior to the present troupe, much bet
ter tempered, and devsh sight cheaper. Here
is list with which musical friend has furnished
us, of the distinguished vocaists at present in the
Italian market -
First class of singers, who would ask from four
to eight thousand dollars TO sing year In Anne
rica;-
PRIME Srcpponi-Opera seria, soprano.
Laura Allesssndri-Meszo, do.