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'''Edoardo Ferrari |
'''Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana''' (8 July 1878 – 4 July 1936) was an Italian tenor.<ref name=obit/> |
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==Biography== |
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He was born on 8 July 1878 in [[Rome, Italy]]. He married [[Margarete Matzenauer]] on 26 June 1912 at the Italian Club in [[Buenos Aires, Argentina]], and they divorced in 1917. He later married Maria Esher Telley y Pastor. He had six children, including [[Adrienne Ferrari-Fontana]] (b. 1914).<ref name=obit/> |
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His American debut was in [[Tristan und Isolde]] in Boston when he was the only tenor available when the original lead singer left the country a day before the performance.<ref name=obit/> |
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| ⚫ | He moved to [[Toronto, Canada]] in 1926 and died there on 4 July 1936.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Ferrari Fontana, Opera Singer, Dead |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9407E5D71330E13BBC4F53DFB166838D629EDE |quote= |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=July 7, 1936 |accessdate=2015-01-08 }}</ref> |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 07:09, 10 January 2015
Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana (8 July 1878 – 4 July 1936) was an Italian tenor.[1]
Biography
He was born on 8 July 1878 in Rome, Italy. He married Margarete Matzenauer on 26 June 1912 at the Italian Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and they divorced in 1917. He later married Maria Esher Telley y Pastor. He had six children, including Adrienne Ferrari-Fontana (b. 1914).[1]
His American debut was in Tristan und Isolde in Boston when he was the only tenor available when the original lead singer left the country a day before the performance.[1]
He moved to Toronto, Canada in 1926 and died there on 4 July 1936.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Ferrari Fontana, Opera Singer, Dead". New York Times. July 7, 1936. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
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