chorus-singers

Updated: June 22, 2025

What attaches performers to the opera-house is the pension de retraite. They all eventually obtain it, even the chorus-singers. The remuneration of authors, that is, of the poet and composer of the music, is to each three hundred francs for every representation, when the piece is not less than three acts. This is the most common division.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is

There were four brothers, fresh from the wildest recesses of the Carpathian Mount, who threw out such woodnotes wild that all the artists stared; and it was universally agreed that, had they not been French chorus-singers, they would have been quite a miracle. But the Lapland sisters were the true prodigy, who danced the Mazurka in the national style.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - The Young Duke