The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-10
PROFITABLE VOICES.
rmmeuse Sums tho Great Singers Hav
Made by Their Work.

three years he spent In LOnoon, Uhousn
his salary was but 81, season,
earned at least $4,000 yearly; for at
but one of his numerous appearances
at court the prince Of Wales gave MN
ga fine wrought gold snuff-box, richly
set with diamonds and rubies. in which
was inclosed pair OF diamond knee
buckles, as also purse of 100 gulneas-
Later in life he accepted an engage
ment at the court of Spain at salary
OF $4,000 francs (s10,o0o) per annum.
Two wears after Farineli left London
the other great singer of the time, Cal.
fareIli. appeared at the Kings theater,
but did not fulfill the expectations ne
had raised, though at Venice he re-
ceived 81, $40 and benefit OF sl,675 Tor
a season of three months-higher terms
than had previously been paid to any
singer.
In 1863, Gabrielle, one of the most
beautiful of women and magnificent OF
sopranos, demanded 5000 duGats salary
from Catherine II. of Russia The en-
press objected that it was larger than
the paw of field marshal Then let
your field marshals sing for you" re-
piled Gabrielle, as Caffarelli had replied
before under like circumstances.
That phenomenal soprano. AguJari,
was in 1775, paid $500 night for two
songs at the London Pantheon con-
certs-an immense salary in those days
About thirty years later Catalini was
receiving some SIS, 600 for the season in
Portugal; and in 1906 she came to Lon
don for promise of $40, 600 for the
season from September Is to August,
1907, with further sum of $500 to de-
fray the cost of her journey to London.
and one benefit night free of expense.
AS fact, however, she drew from
the Kings theater in the Haymarket
BIS. 600, including benefits; and her TO-
tai profits in 1897, with concerts and
provincial tours, were $50, 500. She
once received 81, 600 for singing '9od,
Save the King" and "Rule Britannia"
and for her services at one festival She
was paid $4,000. Her charities. how
ever. were innumerable, and it is esti-
mated that she earned at least $400, 600
1T concerts for such purposes alone. AS
an instance of her reckless extrava-
gance it is stated that the cost of beer
for her servants for single year
amounted to $515
Malibran was engaged by Mr., Alfred
Bum for nineteen nights at S825 per
night, payable in advance! Singing in
Drury Lane in English opera in 1888
she received $4,000 francs ($le,0oO) for
forty representations, with two bene'
fits which produced not less than SO,
900 francs $50, 000). Two years later,
at the opera in London, she received
e10,s75 for twenty-four performances.
Such sums were paid to her at the
English provincial festivals as had
never before been heard of; and at La
Scala she received nearly $50, 600 fo1
1876 performances.
In 1888 Mario was offered $500 a
month for his first appearance, though
this was, of course, largely the result
of his romantic history. Alboni's sal
ary at Covent Garden in 1S47 was
raised from 81, SEQ to $4,000 the day
after her first appearance, singing, al
she was against Jennie Lind at the
opposition house. Sontag was pait
$50. 900 for season of SIX months al
her majesty's theater in 1S49.
. Rubin, who began his career at thir
teen years of age by singing, for fiv'
=. francs, an air in new drama by Lam
beti, made immense sums later in life
> realizing 5000 at one concert in st
Petersburg. Unlike Mario and Mara
. who both died in comparative poverty
Rubini saved large sums and left be
;. hind him one Of the largest fortune
ever amassed on the operate stage.
Jenny Lind was naturally paid emo,
nous sums in the course of her tr
umphant career. During tour OF tw
years through the states, commencin
y in 1850, she made 100000, gaining
husband as well.
= These pecuniary traditions are adj
= quately preserved by at least tw
y present day singers, to whom hundre
~ or two for concert is an ordinar
sum-Mme Patti and Nine Albani.
. is current knowledge that the usus
- terms of the former are 81, 600 per CO,
cert in London and So. 600 in the prov
inces. Nine. Patti lately refused a
offer of a tour in Brazil at the remune
4 alton of So, 600 a night
e Fairly handsome salaries are pal
g also to leading artists of the Vienn
e opera Herr Winkelmann, a teps
r who appeared in London in Germa
re opera some years ago, is paid 26,o
Il forms ESQ for season of min
II months NJ. Van Dyke gets abor
re e4.eo0 forms, but he sings only seve
A. months of the year in Austria. Fra
n Materna, who is soon to retire, to
., replaced . by Frau Klufsky, gets Il
ID same amount for the whole year. ar
Of Frau Schluger. the dramatic sopran
lie receives 20, 600 horins per annum II
IS tenors thus get more than the soprano
= Mile Zelie, of the Theater Lyriqs
he 1T Paris, while singing at concert
I'd the Society Islands in the course of
ut tour around the world was to sing a
tn aria from Norma" and few 9th
NJ songs and bargained for third of Il
ae receipts She found that her sha
al consisted of three pigs, twenty-thr
as turkeys, forty-four chickens, 5000 c
coanuts and a considerable quantity
bananas. lemons and oranges.-Chal
bers' Journal.
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