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Record W4379465846 · doi:10.33137/ic.v1i1.41223

Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana: An Italian Contribution to Music in Ontario

2023· article· en· W4379465846 on OpenAlex
Julius A. Molinaro

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueItalian Canadiana · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtVisual arts

Abstract

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Few people today remember the service Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana rendered to the musical community in Ontario in the period 1926 to 1936: it is, therefore, my intention here to fill a gap in Italian Canadiana by tracing the background and musical career of a man who came to Toronto as a most uncommon immigrant after he had firmly established his reputation as a tenor at La Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.Ferrari-Fontana was born in Rome, July 8, 1878, the son of a brilliant doctor, and descendant of a noble family.He studied medicine following in his father's footsteps.One of his uncles was a well-known sculptor, another a distinguished physician in Cincinnati; his sister was a pianist.The young Edoardo cut short his medical studies two years before obtaining his degree and went into the diplomatic service as secretary to Count Antonelli, the Italian consul in Montevideo.In Montevideo he took singing lessons and in 1901 sang before a private audience at the home of the British Minister in Rio de Janeiro.A director of a comic opera heard him and offered him a contract.! He appeared in comic operas in South America, and in 1906 returned to Italy where he sang in Milan, Rome and Turin.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it