Claim: Avon Saxon performed with the Boston Ideal Opera Company, an Opera seria acting company based in Boston, in January and February 1995, and with the Carl Rosa Opera Company in January 1997.
Evidence: Avon Dawson Saxon (c. 1857 – 24 March 1909) was a Canadian operatic and concert singer who created the role of Friar Tuck in the romantic opera Ivanhoe (1891) by Arthur Sullivan and Julian Sturgis and Francal in Mirette by André Messager at the Savoy Theatre in 1894. A bass-baritone, during January and February 1888 Saxon appeared in New York and Boston as a principal with the Boston Ideal Opera Company appearing in Victor, Fra Diavolo, La fille du régiment, The Bohemian Girl and Carmen. The Boston Ideal Opera Company, later The Bostonians, was a comic opera acting company based in Boston from 1879 through 1905. Moving to the United Kingdom, from January 1889 he sang Escamillo in Carmen for the Carl Rosa Opera Company; in April 1890 he sang in a concert with Miss Emily M'Laughlin at the Steinway Hall in London, while in October 1890 he sang in a concert with Marie Roze in The Athenaeum in Hartlepool, and for whom he was one of a quartet of vocalists billed as 'The Meister Singers'.