The sun., 1891-05-31
Hrsn PRICES FOR soN6.
Earning. OF Famous singers In Times Past
and Present.

Earnings or Famous Sirgers In Times Fnst
| and Present.
A common complaint among musical man
agers on the Continent Ia that tho compensa-
tion OF the great singers OF the day is beyond
| all reasonable proportion to their services
That for tho single performance OF role in an
opera, or for song or two In a concert even.
Patti should command thousands Of dollars. IL
regarded rs an abuse which is becoming ruin
| Gus to the reputation OF the musical nrt. The
| wide gap between the rewards OF the best three
or four and tho ten or twelve next best
is described as the result OF musical
caprice or popular inability to correctly esti-
mate relative merits. The favorttee." said q
Continental critic recently. are the cancers OF
the modern opera" The complaint is as old
rs the subject it. and both are far from be-
log the exclusively modern phenomena which
| Europeans In their attacks on the methods OF
| American imprcssarios allege.
Whom Catherine Gabr!elli went 30 st. Peters
burg in tho latter halt OF the last century che
demanded 10000 roubles salary. Twenty
thousand roublesl' cried Katharine II. For
that could support two Field Marshals"
| Very we'll" answered the singer, your
Majesty may then have them to sing for you"
Julius perotti, the tenor. gave similar
answer recently when his salary was under
discussion. Beniczy. manager of tho RoYsl
| Opera House IN Pesth, was negotiating with
him. Twelve thousand dollars for eight
months and the Order OF tho Iron Cross" were
Perottis terms
II have nothing to DO with the Iron Cross"
| was the managers answer, and therefore
sisoSS e Eut shall III not o give them 10 'e' yoS 'n'
A colleague Of perotti remonstrated:
presasn Gets '"a only 'AsPs sPsSSo Ds Tor 9WsiSe
Yes, yes" wac the tenor's reply, but I
Ss that SOSn ,Sn, Eves the public half
and sn' xsss ia fF:h H:hsn ts:
Eolern King. They demand their release: +
.He .He them Inc d'''
mands, oi musical artists have an ancient HIS
tory. Early In the sixteenth century the citi-
rnining the land. In i5i6 Duke Ulrich gave
h oss h ans thai .hs s h s aals
would cut down as low as possible his budget
suSss Saa sy sd
1 % engns IN I ach oT bs
thoss I'D the
snssrs We're In Thch seem 5dsu
Grave Soritz. In, casssi. about ] si56 % annually %
ard MS board and lodgings. ,iiis salary was:
STATE. Under Duk" Eberhard Ludwleti677 -i7sSI.
s1b pad 81
hsh. prce % N Dsssasn anaor johann Geo1se
in P
and kosana snntne Y had annual salaries Of
the eighteenth century. paid each Of several
soloists *24O0 q year.
osos spread 10 the Ner,ssrn a,s Courts @ aud thence
70 the Northern audiences the larger became
RlDpOS0u to have DAen rpAnOnaIble tho
an sudden Of r.,
as 10 have ospsed
the corresponding phenomenon IN the opeIatlo
%S1t for a sem es s
better in England: sh" d'od. h"wever. In the
Elizabeth Mara. whose maiden name was
3! FTsasIiss ,hs S9s.s Bssl1s 1!sS 81
Ths sssas Hohenzoe.n: Ssssrsa L5sth; bs iii:
ieavs Of absence. SO she Simply broke her con-
and nrred OF 70 London whe.s for
the Gsrman stage could give her. ~
Ate. cGaani had TSs befo5e M
and
s e She %as ner Hee
:%here Go YOU 60 from here. MADAME"
"Ksmaa in Paris and will give you $4,000
Catalani bowed and went to London. whero |
she got s5JVO0 from an enlargement and |
sS.o sonce dpng her Of a
shipped there M as no singer , before her and iey
sseie%s efsu que susH 9%ons ii. sI1'ns
MARQUIS OF Buckingham Ho entertained the |
singer and her husband. NJ de IaabrSeue. at
recep, ions were given there, in her honor. ami
OF each she responded - the urgent reauests
OF Il. st sSn in badns
snnd onss ns M 81 Ths nr
Iuis looked at 1t. wrote out his check Tor l7u0
Gr ds
.xees;iineg that did mot before Of; Know that@
& de- valn6rGuS was the cashier 2, The Cn.ani
in England. as It had Injured Mara. in Beriin.
that she refused to sing ut a benefit for widows
procesds pro- were assured az her. XtSourh ali areas
singers OF to-day nae not quite Tree from such
aIe openhanded and safheartcI to degree
DH II 1877 tirsinia d Btssis Who. in Don Juan"
AHA @ and and ztrGma. ] was vase On suaei Tor the Paris
opera with lifelong salaly Of g; 200 annually;
E"i en- years ser sno ~ ;,ias G ot rhhLnhma.ion h % q
fame seem TO have died with her. had similar |
contract ior $50 NJ annually IN tne Paris Opera.
one evenings performance rnrning Si5.O01.
about the highest price ever paid to o singer
L f3r single ,i appearance; heiHie,te isoAtng's
$1,000. received by her from u benefit In Lon:
don. Her enrnlncs for The Lonoou season Of
1s49 ware slOLOnI
Nal bran received in Paris s15.0O0 salary. n
benefit and u leave OF absence WHICH brought
her in fu ,ly us much rs her salnry u S33 She
vas engaged for tho Drurv i.ane Theatre in
London for $lO0n and two r-nc,its with u
Guaranteed profit OF si2.Uul. or. al. ogether.
$3.50 Tor ten W, eks' work. In 1874 she made
q tour oi lazy Sh" nppeared during il ISj
times and received s144 OUU. Shortly before her
death she signed an tnEagemeot for another
tour for which her com, cnsatSon WAS to L8
Sl2uO0t,
Russia ia the country In which great artists
get pecnninry rewards nealeSt to The English
and Amencnn standard. This fact il du" mt
only 20 the immense wealth OF tho nobility nnd
row nlfr IN TIM innIIru. Int al ~ Tho iiNnAr