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I turned up some of my old research about the running costs/ticket prices etc at the Opera Garnier (weirdly, this appears to have been a totally *different* set of research from the additional values cited in my existing post of assorted opera research!)
While trying to find out which operas were actually produced at the Palais Garnier during the early 1880s (in order to give Raoul and Philippe a plausible production to attend for the third chapter of my Christmas story!), I came across a very useful book mentioning various facts about opera in Paris, for example https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KSQGZOTQKmwC&pg=PA2
The Opera might take 20,000F in ticket sales from a single performance, which puts Erik's 'salary' into perspective -- on the other hand, it cost 16-17,000F per night to stage an opera at all.( Read more... )
While trying to find out which operas were actually produced at the Palais Garnier during the early 1880s (in order to give Raoul and Philippe a plausible production to attend for the third chapter of my Christmas story!), I came across a very useful book mentioning various facts about opera in Paris, for example https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KSQGZOTQKmwC&pg=PA2
The Opera might take 20,000F in ticket sales from a single performance, which puts Erik's 'salary' into perspective -- on the other hand, it cost 16-17,000F per night to stage an opera at all.( Read more... )