Beaumavielle, François
(†1688)> SINGER
Beaumavielle, François (? Languedoc; 1688 ?), a singer whose birth and death are shrouded in mystery, appeared on the stage first as a chorister in Molière’s Psyché at the Tuileries in January 1671. He was chosen to fill the part of Vertumne in Pomone when the newly formed Opéra mounted this work in the rue Mazarine two months later in March 1671. Cast as Faune in Les Peines et les plaisirs de l’amour in the autumn of this same year, he was still active as a vocalist at the time that he joined…