Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Mines of Sulphur was Richard Rodney Bennett’s first full-length opera, having been preceded by The Ledge, a one-act chamber opera (1961), and The Midnight Thief, an operetta for children (1963). On the basis of these works, Bennett was commissioned to provide a new opera for the Aldeburgh Festival. As a possible subject, director Colin Graham suggested Scarlet Ribbons, a one-act play by Beverley Cross, who soon was asked to adapt his play for Bennett’s use. Fearing he would not have sufficient time to complete the work before the scheduled premiere, the composer withdrew from the commission (evidently there were no hard feelings, for the opera is dedicated to Benjamin Britten). The Mines of Sulphur had its premiere on 24 February 1965 at Sadler’s Wells, conducted by Colin Davis; it was toured throughout Great Britain (in Glasgow it was seen by a seventeen-year-old Stewart Robinson), and produced in Zagreb, Paris, Milan, Toronto, and New York (by the Juilliard School). Subsequently, apart from an Opera North revival in its 1978–79 season, it seems to have gone unperformed until this production at Glimmerglass in the summer of 2004, which was given five further performances at the New York City Opera in the fall of 2005.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".