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-- Folantin 17:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Composers who wrote some of their own libretti: -- Folantin 08:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm delighted to see this and I like the layout which makes the permutations really clear. This will be a real credit to the project. - Kleinzach 02:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I've introduced a subtle distinction between libretti written "for" a composer and libretti "used by" a composer (often long after the author was dead). This allows us to add Georg Büchner et al..
Also, celebrity librettists? Do we add Frederick the Great, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, even though the operas for which they wrote libretti are fairly obscure?-- Folantin 10:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we listing the operas in alphabetic order as on the Opera corpus? - Kleinzach 13:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking in Grove (which is remarkably librettist-friendly) and find there are about 500 biographies of librettists (listed on page 1224 of the print edition). This includes articles on literary sources (one removed) such as Shakespeare, Beaumarchais etc. There are also about 60 or 70 articles on libretti (almost all Italian, and probably largely Metastasio), and 'libretto subjects'. This is maybe worth considering if we remember that the Opera corpus coverage is gradually catching up with Grove (now 1,450 titles to 1,800 in Grove). -- Kleinzach 07:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I see Basil Hood is quaintly credited with "English libretti for continental operettas". I think it might be better to delete this unless we are going to include libretto translators. What do other people think? - Kleinzach 10:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
A couple of things relating to him: First, is he a V or an S? He's not in the Oxford Dictionary and the Viking has him under both, under V for the Bizet and S for the rest! Where is he in Grove? And should his name include the words "Marquis de"? Second, I wasn't sure what to do about Les diamants de la couronne, which also appears under Scribe - should it appear under both librettists or what? -- GuillaumeTell 11:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we at the stage when we might add a few names in red? I have Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, Etiene Tréfeu, Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Louis Anseaume in mind. Perhaps someone would like to do stubs for them? -- Kleinzach 02:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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-- Folantin 17:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Composers who wrote some of their own libretti: -- Folantin 08:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm delighted to see this and I like the layout which makes the permutations really clear. This will be a real credit to the project. - Kleinzach 02:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I've introduced a subtle distinction between libretti written "for" a composer and libretti "used by" a composer (often long after the author was dead). This allows us to add Georg Büchner et al..
Also, celebrity librettists? Do we add Frederick the Great, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, even though the operas for which they wrote libretti are fairly obscure?-- Folantin 10:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we listing the operas in alphabetic order as on the Opera corpus? - Kleinzach 13:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking in Grove (which is remarkably librettist-friendly) and find there are about 500 biographies of librettists (listed on page 1224 of the print edition). This includes articles on literary sources (one removed) such as Shakespeare, Beaumarchais etc. There are also about 60 or 70 articles on libretti (almost all Italian, and probably largely Metastasio), and 'libretto subjects'. This is maybe worth considering if we remember that the Opera corpus coverage is gradually catching up with Grove (now 1,450 titles to 1,800 in Grove). -- Kleinzach 07:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I see Basil Hood is quaintly credited with "English libretti for continental operettas". I think it might be better to delete this unless we are going to include libretto translators. What do other people think? - Kleinzach 10:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
A couple of things relating to him: First, is he a V or an S? He's not in the Oxford Dictionary and the Viking has him under both, under V for the Bizet and S for the rest! Where is he in Grove? And should his name include the words "Marquis de"? Second, I wasn't sure what to do about Les diamants de la couronne, which also appears under Scribe - should it appear under both librettists or what? -- GuillaumeTell 11:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we at the stage when we might add a few names in red? I have Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, Etiene Tréfeu, Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Louis Anseaume in mind. Perhaps someone would like to do stubs for them? -- Kleinzach 02:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)