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While touring the United States, Byron formed a romantic attachment to one of his colleagues, the
American soprano Laura Schirmer. The pair later married in Italy in 1882 after the tour ended in May 1881. Byron continued to perform in Italian opera houses in Pisa, Modena, Catania, and Parma through
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in Milan; a role he repeated at opera houses in Novara and Fiume among other cities. In 1875 he was leading tenor at the Teatro Nuovo in Pisa and the Teatro
Umberto in Florence. He also appeared other theatres in 1875 as a guest artist; including both Manrico in
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who was active as a voice teacher and singer in London at the time that Byron was studying with
Randegger. As a result of this relationship, Byron often socialized with and performed with Rudersdorff and her students; including his first appearance at
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and was again at the Gaiety
Theatre in Lorenzo in addition to performing in several more concerts at The Crystal Palace and other venues in London. In 1872 he was the tenor soloist in the world premiere of the oratorio
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took hold of the tenor and ultimately brought about the ruin of both his marriage and career. He returned to
England and died not long after at St George's Union Infirmary on
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in a concert series organized by and featuring
Randegger as conductor and Rudersdorff and her pupils. In 1871 he appeared in Brighton as Don Ottavio in
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