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| − | Having joined forces with violinist [[Horace Poussard]], the manager [[Robert Smythe]] and the latter's wife, the soprano [[Amelia Bailey]], to found the [[Poussard-Bailey Opera Company]] and undertake a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, she gave more than 150 performances in most of the major centres of the country. | + | Having joined forces with violinist [[Horace Poussard]], the manager [[Robert Smythe]] and the latter's wife, the soprano [[Amelia Bailey]], to found the [[Poussard-Bailey Opera Company]] and undertake a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, she was billed as [[Florence Calzado]] and gave more than 150 performances in most of the major centres of the country. |
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Florence Calzado (fl circa 1860s)[1] is one of the professional names of the "serio-comic vocalist" Florence Beverley.
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Biography
According to the blog Out of the In Bottle[2], virtually nothing seems to be known about either Florence Beverley or Florence Calzado (her stage name for a while - she is also referred to Floraette Blanche Beverley on at least one occasion). While in South Africa she was billed as a "serio-comic vocalist" and having linked up with him, apparently she became the "wife" of violinist Horace Poussard, having had a child by him. She definitely toured with him and the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company during their "Grand Tour" in the late 1860s.
The blog further mentions that she later listed herself as a widow, and goes on to marry a miner named Samuel Paynter Thomas Cornish in Hill End NSW. After that nothing more seems to be heard of her.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Having joined forces with violinist Horace Poussard, the manager Robert Smythe and the latter's wife, the soprano Amelia Bailey, to found the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company and undertake a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, she was billed as Florence Calzado and gave more than 150 performances in most of the major centres of the country.
Sources
http://outoftheinkbottle.blogspot.com/2009/06/calzado-who.html
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 223, 243-6,
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