The sun., 1896-09-06

| wy. ~ . bent ana $40 q boI. ] said:
| My dear friends. II You both Will take my
but while am The manager insist on put putting ting
.ss, ss Srlces @ a. 81 " for seat and s"s for our'
After hort ai,cu. sion persuaded them
one star. Nilsson, At $500 psrformance ] ss and and
half the gross receipts after $4,000, with ri
ana 20 wS nSs
60 on, Dc viyo," saio Rosa. You have q
Thus l woE the price. and was the 4 irst
ETand opera. They thsnksd me Very much "S,
aSrss Sat sss GSar Question showsa sroaShi
| them their big profit amount. otherwise they
pro TSs SssSS .tSp Gpy seasoss s margin ana
| "a. were under the brothers Strakosch as i'm.
n,ss Ud Ts the nrnds Mss
.1S sPS Man,, n he .fsSna GS!Gp and Cam
,hese two seasons @ ;y they cleared over 5000, 600.
Sl.oSs SS'9s pros, 1t seDE s,ss6 stS m'' s''OOO
direction OF Max Maretzek, backed by Mr..
Iohen. the mill!onaire hoop and corset manu-.
ssuTss oss StGoSo Lae
Isry to me how such big loss wa. incurred.
Ths second LuesS sY,. season; is;a:54. under
the Grand Opera House aud two weeks at the
Boston Theatre. In the company were the
os sSa hs s' Sa .'%1l %a. He rss
success ssd S d. ISrsk"
Mont in So.sr.s Magic Flute" and Quart particS q
his Immense success in I'll Trovstore," ROY M and in in
Don Giovanni" in Boston. In which opera
.Dasd ssrs
tore In which opera Iueca sang the part q
Der,orm. Of that opera % have e' ever sAfi @is
eveulng. receiving an ovation after his grand
s H ass to take
rssod Iaecs so @urh. that, instead OF going Ito to
cfhliicsKo, where they TeIe billed 70 sppsar the
for HAWAII Mhe4s bsS Ind ,s s9e
ser!ption for her company Of sl.a.O0oeS
But this large subscription was on account
there; having been the impresarlo OF, his
grand opera compsny the season before. Tam
him here: N that time was the nannVer
the press that he did no; belong TO the lucca
Company; as he had LEFT him so shsmefully.
wnsn oSn Shs osf beard it the M
Jarret's management was disastrous.
Lqsca 'Ss rssppssrsd here in German oper.
ing the theatre from phi to EaiIery. Ruli.
m2n Hnna made de-, about $4,000 and ste received
The season OF 1879 was disastrous for
bani. for the reason that Nine Aibani at
& that time ne was good singer tn% but not no, great
when % 1 @ heard Of sa the onsssement' e"' ~ "'"''
oh. my dear De viyo.' he said: you mus,
a%THs srss, I%erisa" cam aTl hP "4''' 10 rear TINS
ing pPephes % in hi, own town. s@s 0a and sac DO
not forget it,
col The % pS sasss d ass . % 6 Spers ssS Cont %!
country. with Mine Eteka Gerster and Mime.
ram@nini. Galassi. Del ruente. &c. were a
financial success. The houses were crowded
sus '0 lucia. "nsf 'f5St Par,iani. . Tsnm LEi,Eir
a,Anors" &c; ;ss;,s and also when IIauk sang
r,ddor song OF Del Puents brought him to
es Ses,. tr9n' On ,Ss ank pus sf he became the ia"
Of es4a;s ., .nd I'm n.s ai as ..s
Turner opsrs IN English. Atser my arrival
Academy OF Music under Mapleson's manage
nent His Patt! seasons: from 1881 TO lssi,
the performance. Of La semiramide." with
best I ever heard, the average receipts at 81
a seat were over 81 900. OF which Patti re-
pearel. on the stage, In the three Pat': sea
sons Mapleson cleared great deal Of money.
m there h.
season as manager OF Nine; Fursch; Madi.
the d,G Ts 1sres ,sssons G son
never we made less tSan $50. 900 each seas"n." " %
Matleson failed TO make money when he
but he has been n very good impresarto. who
has had his ups and downs, like any other man.
hts new enterprise. and know that he has
engaged great arspEnc n M prime. prime donna n.
IN ana hss
euccess in Italy; spain. and South America.
he SuessHSS hels he ~ not hurt in The
will begin three weeks later: The lass OF over
S25o.0OO which Abbey suffered in his first
ss n the oesning % OF he Mstropolisn % oDera SDr
House vas due to his most extraordinarily
Hmons sseDs REASONS is the fact that he paid the
largest ealariss that ever were paid 10 artists
" Li.ten h NO 70 the list. Nilsson received $4,000
performance In the last season of her career
Th her voice in Mssn VI dsn .hs sS
zenith with the strakoshee, her salary with
the percentage avesagedS eSo1s Sil9o Psr sno
q performance, and although she scored an
im%ense surcss&s & sf d sic VA: S: & great r, snceE
Murska. she had no maen stism. and failed TO
draw one third Of her salary. Nine: scalchl
a month. Nine. Fursch Madi $1,000 a month,
Nine. Trebelll $4,000 month Sig. Cam.
pAnini $4,000 o month. singing ten times.
Campanini was almost q broken-down tenor
then. while In his best days Mspleson paid him
Just what he received fr,m Abbey. Siagno. a
tenor. a great singer and an actor. who made
great success in I'll 1rovatore," Puritani,,''
''1he barber OF Seville" Robert the Devil"
and other operas, was not appreciai edhere, on
He resolved $4,000 performSnrs, singing
ten times Kashmnn; baritone, ~ received
With the other expenses, think that accord
ing to my calculation. the weekly expenses
reached q bout $25. ZOO. II no more A second
reason was that the great opposition OF tho
Maploson company with "a diva Patti and
over the country. killed h" business ot Abbe.,s
that two opera companies with tho greatest
stars in the operate world. assisted BY great
singers. never were financially successful play
Ing against each other in any capital in the
world. Guy, with Patti and Scolin, Grisi,
and kArio at tho Cove.,t Gar.on, London, and
Col. Mapleson, with the great lltiens, Nilsson.
Lncca, d. Murska. Guiglini; Mongini: and
years for the supremacy, Neither made any