Letter from James Joyce Letters 1916-1923 James Joyce

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 Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Joyce, J. Letters https://letters1916.ie/item/6648 English James Joyce 1923 None Male 1941 Culture and the Arts

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 the prestige of the Italian primo tenor assoluto to beshattered on the first hearing of Sullivan's voice inLondon, New York and Chicago, which they , not withoutreason, regard as provincial cities not very criticalbut very lucrative for them. I have seen the Italiannotices of Sullivan in Italy. No tenor, Italian orotherwise, has ever had such a press. It is monstrousthat the Italian ring in London and America and theIrish ring there too should have been able to keephim for fifteen years out of the theatres where hisfellow-countrymen could hear him. He is forty-nineand what has to be done for him must be done immediatelyand by somebody who puts up the money for thesetheatres; nobody else can do anything against thecamorra.Sullivan does not need to be told that he is thegreatest dramatic tenor at present alive and that therehave not been heard on the operatic stage for anentire generation such ease of emission, splendour ofdiction and magnificence of tone as he displays xxxxevery night he sings for 125 dollars. I am giving you most of the facts but use only what yyou think effective.With all my prayers to Saint Cecily for yourgood success , and my warmest thanks, sincerely yours James Joyce James Joyce Letter from James Joyce to Kate Buss, 13 February 1920Letter from James Joyce Letter from James Joyce to Hannah Sheehy Skeffington , 21 October 1923Letter from James Joyce to Herbert Thring