Poor Beaumont

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Edward Armes Beaumont (born December 15, 1842 in St Faith's / Norfolk , † July 17, 1913 in Melbourne ) was an Australian singer (tenor).

Beaumont came to Melbourne with his family in 1848 and attended a private school there. He gained his first experience as a singer as a member of the Brunswick Street Wesleyan Chapel . He made his first appearance as a soloist in 1861, when he took over the tenor part in Handel's Messiah at the annual Christmas concert of the Melbourne Musical Union as a substitute for Henry Squires , who was ill . In 1862 he accompanied violinist Horace Poussard and cellist René Douay on a concert tour through South Australia and New Zealand under the direction of Robert Sparrow Smytheden .

Beaumont made his debut as an opera singer in 1863 with William Saurin Lysters theater company at the side of the prima donna Rosalie Durand as Thaddeus in Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl . He made his debut in Gaetano Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment at the Haymarket Theater in Melbourne in 1864 . In the following years he took part in the concert tours of Lysters theater troupe. At the beginning of 1867 he lost an eye in a shooting accident, but by the end of the year he was back on stage twelve times in a row in the title role of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell .

In 1868 he went to America with Lyster's theater company and lived in San Francisco after they were dissolved. When Lyster left for Australia again in 1870 with the newly formed Lyster Smith Opera Company , Beamont rejoined him and toured for another ten years. Lyster, who was close friends with him, left him a considerable inheritance after his death in 1880, on which he could live until the economic depression of 1890.

Beaumont then founded its own concert company, which also included Rosina Palmer and John Lemmoné . With this he performed in the Australasian region until 1894. After that he devoted himself exclusively to teaching.

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