REMUNERATION OF ARTISTS IN ENGLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3393, 6 January 1874, Page 3

REMUNERATION OF ARTISTS IN ENGLAND.

i “ Call-boy” has received from a well-? known entrepreneur who lately returned toj England from Melbourne, the following in-s teroating letter. Writing from London ati latest date, he says: You would be sur4 urised at the amounts paid io artists in: in England. Sima beeves, who has his Hstj »•£ engagements filled up to next September,) never sings under LBO for each evening.! The baritone Santley easily pulls off Lso‘ per night. M. Calvert, by his splendid-' production of Henry V., at Birmingham,! has cleared, during the first month presentation, over L 3,000 above all expenses. | Miss Julia Matthews has commanded for; some time L 25 per week. Mis Emdy Sol-* dene has received LSO per week; and Miss Blanche Cole obtains without trouble’ her' JL2fi on the qame with' Australia,'and you will at'once seethe difS- : oulty of inducing good artists or great capi-l talists to invest yon,uypur i side of the! ocean, where "they try to "raise artists at L 4 and L 5 per week. The hostile criticisms orthe Melbourne ; on-artists' who s have visited you, and who have" held,! and hold now, a first-class position in this! country, is dreaded by artists who mightotherwise bo’ tempted to visit you. ‘ Middling! vocalists are easily getting their L2O per week on the continent.;. I have received; letters from tolerably good artists, and they, ask 30 guineas per week.- It is no use for first-class people who can command high salaries here to go to Australia, as yonr prices are too low. They are raised all over; the worl(| except in youp r peculiar corner. Of; old Australian favorites Barry Sullivan is; crowded wherever he goes, and since the great,advance- jn the wages of, the working classes, this may be said to be general i houffe English opera singers’ visiting jroil , 5 it is out of ‘ the 'question.' The Crystal .Palace Company 5 ar6s’giving' 5 ’ giving' their; prima. donna, Madame Florence Lancia,. L3O per week. he would require LSO per wet k to "move. ■' So yoirifcee. there is very little! chance of firat-cbiss ope»a artists leaving here for’ the southern'hemisphere.” ‘ 5 ’