GREAT SINGERS' FEES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 15

GREAT SINGERS' FEES.

HUGE SUMS EARNED.

I the fees paid to incomes they de- : modern sources, lecture given by the Town Hall in that Cnmpanani, cago Opera Comurci for four ccn--200 per night for the second, and and £330 for the ■as interestmg to paid to Galhleceived by some >ast 160 years, rcprano, was P-™ London; Madame sived a ' similar •flmous tenor and shed wife, Gnsi, ) per week; Camd tenor, received ica, but only £4O Santley, in, his guineas a night, 1 ilt ilrt° h £ g 120 m £ao, to uv o Spanish prima JO per night at Uelba latterly retablishment, with receipts if they figure, arden fee was btly but in Inter , efforts for the :ouse. New York, .» for #SOO per mos Aires Opera i stated to have amount. The t, as well as the ?sful, would apdnme Patti, who i for certain pcr- , no loss than jontrast between r her first opermdon, for wnich ) per week. As so did her fee, that Nilsson was , Patli, discovera larger reward mount being- ac- » guineas, which ip from the £BO t time- been res Patti's fe© for ,ond.on and £SOO 'or grand opera m £SOO to £6OO d £IOOO a night said Mr Foster, uie unknown to » referred to the granbphbne reed a fortune in first six months records were put 300 worth were ual verified figon those would 1,000 to £2O 000.. source-', "and ancd l that her inears was at least > (have averaged XX) a year for a Jars, and to have later years when tours! in North ler share of the : visit to Argenrly £50,000. No x great singer as roice," although ble enough nownparison.