"NOTES THAT TELL."
[From some published figures of Madame *■ Pebti'e eaminge it in believed that she must * fere Bttdea round million pounds with her ' wonderful vote. During one single year k «b* netted £70,000. Day after day during l, «ne part of her career she made within two *oe tbwe hour* over £1000. The highest %" figure ever paid to a singer at Covent Garf *a waa the sum of £9600 paid to Madame §„ fttti m 1870 for abrteen appearances, or jT " r £6oo for «v& appearance- DTiring her 4 Jtawrioan toon sne obtained as much as * HI2OO « night. Her fees for einging have 1 'Oettaialy been "princely"; but ebe probSc Aly beaps th» pahn ia her profession for b,. being p»id for not singing, for at one season | t lit Coront Ganlm,-ib«Hdeß her £800 a par- % faraumoe, *he waa paid a retainer of £12,000 P ft<* to atog elsewhere for a certain period. '- * Madame Pafcti'e voice is "underwritten ,, for i jStfKto * performance, or for £8000 for total / fceof Only twice, it isstated, has > db» drawn the insurance/
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5
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