Italy | Rome | Nil. | £2,400, withdrawn | | | in 1898. | | | | Milan | La Scala receives | | | £3,900 for 50 | | | performances. | | | | | Turin | Municipal Orchestra| Previous subsidy | | lent for operatic| withdrawn. | | purposes. | | | | | Naples | £3,200 for the | | | San Carlo House. | | | | | Venice | Varying amounts on | | | special occasions.| | | | Norway | Christiania| About £1,100 granted per | | annum to the National | | Theatre (not exclusively | | for opera). | | Peru | Lima | Occasional grants to | | travelling companies | | for opera. | | Portugal | Lisbon | San Carlos Opera House | | rent free. | | Russia | Petersburg | Details unavailable. | and | In 1902 the sum of about | Moscow | £300,000 was granted by | | the Emperor to the three | | Imperial Theatres in | | these cities. | | | Warsaw | Nil. | Former subsidy | | | withdrawn. | | | | Riga | Nil. | Managed by a “Guild.” | | | | Odessa | Opera House maintained | | by Municipality. | | | | | | Saxony | Coburg and | £3,778 to the Ducal| Rent free. | Gotha | Court Theatre. | | | | | Dresden | £31,000 paid by the King, | | and any deficit made | | good (£15,000 in 1903). | | | | | Many other towns grant | | free use of the theatre, | | and sometimes of the | | Municipal orchestra, the | | scenery, dresses, etc.