-----------+------------+--------------------+---------------------- COUNTRY. | TOWN. | AMOUNT. | COMMENTS. -----------+------------+--------------------+---------------------- Argentine |Buenos Ayres| Nil. |Municipal taxation Republic | | | exempted to | | | performing Companies | | | at the Opera. Austria and| Vienna | Free Theatre given:|Opera House cost Hungary | | deficit made good | £509,795 to build. | | from the Emperor’s| | | Civil list. | | Buda-Pesth | £24,208 and £250 |An additional grant | | for salaries. | from the Sovereign | | | of £13,334. | Prague | £3,750. |(For the Czech Theatre | | | for 1903). Bavaria | Munich | Municipality keeps | A sum of £12,500 goes | | up the Court | to the general | | Theatre. | upkeep of the | | Prince Regent | Court Theatre and | | Theatre (New Opera| Residency Theatre | | House) free | in Munich from the | | electric lighting| Royal Civil list. | | up to £1,125. | | Würtemberg | Deficit, averaging | House used for | | £15,000, made | dramatic as well as | | good by the King | operatic purposes. | | of Würtemberg. | | | | Belgium | | | Subsidies granted to | | | composers of from | | | 500 to 1,500 francs | | | per act on approved | | | operas; also of | | | from 60 to 250 | | | francs per | | | performance. | Brussels | Théâtre Royale de | Rent free, but many | | la Monnaie, | conditions imposed. | | £5,600. | | Antwerp | Subsidy varied | | | according to | | | requirements. | | | | Bulgaria | | Nil. | | |