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The May CoM is based on this discussion The May OoM is once again a collection of opera articles which completely lack sources, including somewhat surpisingly, The Queen of Spades. Looking ahead to June.... Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I'd be in favour of using this proposal by Smerus, three composers whose grand operas premiered at the Paris Opera
Any other suggestions? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I have a further list of opera articles lacking sources, enough for June, if there are no other suggestions. Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
A red link editor added a story to Jonas Kaufmann, I reverted as not encyclopedic, he added it again, saying it's all referenced and true. I don't doubt that but still think it's not relevant. Opinions, please, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The article on Andrey Labinsky previously included a reference to Labinsky acting as "soloist Sinoidalnogo of the Znamensky cathedral chorus" after quitting school. I couldn't find any information or references on "sinoidalnogo." Anybody familiar with this term? Thanks. Jo3sampl ( talk) 02:48, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
This unreferenced blp is up for deletion. Not sure if it is worth being rescued. Also, I just discovered a mess of a new article: George Zervanos. 4meter4 ( talk) 04:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
The first one has now been overwritten at least twice with a real mess. As I've already reverted it once today, I've left it, tagged it for the multiple and very obvious issues, and put a note at Talk:Donald Smith (tenor). The second one was overwritten with copyvio paste from the subject's web page by the same editor. I've reverted it and so far this hasn't been re-reverted. I've left a message with more guidance on the editor's talk page, but I'm not sure, how much effect it will have. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Keep an eye on this. An IP changed the cast list and image to insert completely made up names even in the file name for the image which resulted in it disappearing from the article. [2] When I reverted, a brand new user ( B Dizzle DP) restored the IP's edits. [3] I've now reverted that as well and left a note on their talk page, but there may be further attempts. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:04, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Just saw this article. Not sure if he is notable. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
The category is being discussed for deletion or merging here. Incidentally, a least 9 new stub articles have been created for opera singers who died in the Holocaust. Almost all of them appear to need a lot of clean up. I've already "done" Magda Spiegel, Richard Breitenfeld, and Erhard Wechselmann and have tagged Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann and the rest for cleanup. They're at Category:Opera singers who died in the Holocaust, if anyone wants to have a bash at them.
On a side note, I found these articles purely by accident. Alas, the bot that used to alert us to new opera articles is no longer operating (last run 20 March 2011) and looks to be out of commission for a long time [4]. A real pity! Voceditenore ( talk) 12:31, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
One area which I think our project has not collaborated well on is on opera singers. I think it would be beneficial to have a "Singers of the Month" section. Given that there are many poorly referenced singer articles (by which I mean they are either completely unreferenced or lack inline citations), I think it would be best to have this section highlight improving existing articles. 4meter4 ( talk) 02:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Just did a big expansion of this article and in the process, discovered a whopping error in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. See the Musica proibita section re "A common misconception [...]" and the accompanying footnote. Does the "Verga, Giovanni" article by Barbara Reynolds in the NGDO still say what I've quoted in the footnote? Or has it been corrected in a later version? Also, once I've finished off the Gastaldon article, I'm going to start an article on his opera Mala Pasqua!. I presume the exclamation point in the title is OK? That's how it appears in the libretto - there's a image of the cover in the Gastaldon article. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Ah, the (very) mixed blessings of a DYK... The article appeared on the front page today and within minutes, it had an IP trying to "improve" the translation of the first line of "Musica proibita", another IP demanding {{ citation needed}} at the end of a comma despite the 25 inline cites in the article (including one at the end of the paragraph!) and this rather endearing bit of vandalism. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:37, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
I've just crawled under the end-of-May wire and done what I could with Phyllis Tate's opera, but haven't found an awful lot of information. Tate isn't in Grove Opera or the Oxford Dictionary of Opera, and only has a short entry in Viking (However, there's a quote there about the opera which I can plunder). The premiere date is 16 July 1960 according to Cassaglia but 14 July according to Dutch Wikipedia. Cassaglia's cast list differs slightly from the one at Edition Peters. Only one of the refs that I have has anything resembling a synopsis (it's an excerpt from a pre-premiere article in The Times in June 1960, to which I don't have access), and my Opera Magazines only go back to 1972. There are also a couple of articles in JSTOR and The Musical Times, neither of which I can access. All help and additional contributions welcome. -- Guillaume Tell 21:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Fabiano. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:15, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
As one of this month's CoMs, I was planning to create and develop Louise Bertin's La Esmeralda which kind of fits in with another WikiProject I'm involved in. But I don't want to duplicate work. Was or is anyone else planning to work on this one? Voceditenore ( talk) 10:52, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Opera News just reported the death of soprano Jane Rhodes here if anyone cares to create an article on her. Page 407 of The Grove Book of Opera Singers also has an entry on her written by Max Loppert which can be found here. 4meter4 ( talk) 04:05, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Looking for details about Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), I found a performance history of the Theater Wiesbaden, which says 1953-1955, 1957-1958 (p 427). If these figures are the years when it was played in Wiesbaden - which I would assume - it says that it was played more than once (good news) but contradicts the premiere date we had so far? Do other opera sources tell more? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:06, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion, I have nominated the article for deletion as a hoax. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giovanni Francesco di Caspará. – Voceditenore ( talk) 13:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
This article seems legit, but it has no references at all. Can anyone add a couple? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:50, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Just saw this article. Not sure that this young artist is notable yet. She's in the Met's young artist program but doesn't appear to have performed in any major productions yet. What do you all think? 4meter4 ( talk) 00:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Kathleen Ferrier is currently up for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Kathleen Ferrier/archive1. User:Brianboulton has recently improved the article greatly with I believe the aim of taking it to FA. This would be wikipedia's first FA class article about an opera singer if/when it passes. Any comments at the peer review by our project members would be helpful to him in this excellent endeavor. 4meter4 ( talk) 23:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
You may notice that the "Featured Content" section in the portal is currently blank. This is only temporary. The editor who built the portal for us has arranged for a new bot to automatically update the content in that section from now on. Once the bot runs later today, it will re-appear. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:49, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
There are several important August birthdays I think we should highlight. Given the number listed below, I would suggest splitting up this list into two parts, some for July and some for August. Alternatively we could just work on the whole list for both months. 4meter4 ( talk) 09:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Sound good? 4meter4 ( talk) 09:45, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I think a simple bulletted list of upcoming anniversaries, Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Anniversaries, would be a useful thing to have. It can be a resource both for deciding on the XoM's and for individual editors who might like to do something on their own. We can post a link to it as a permanent first message on this page. As for letting the list and "getting on the front page" always drive the XoM's, I'm a little more wary. Quite wary in fact. In my experience, asking for small incremental improvements (e.g. sourcing, adding specific sections, stub expansion) and creation of missing articles is much more likely to lead to participation and an actual result than going for FA. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:38, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I gave Lolita a start, my first attempt at an opera, German premiere tonight, synopsis s. the novel, help welcome, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
As there have been no further responses or updates since 24 October I have archived the discussion here. Feel free to raise it again, if anyone thinks it's important or has any updates. Voceditenore ( talk) 10:21, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
– Voceditenore ( talk) 08:46, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
One is Category:Classical singers as a subcat of Category:Singers by genre (If there are enough of them I guess you could create subcategories under Category:Singers by genre and nationality instead. If the goal is specifically to make it to make it a sub cat of voice type rather than genre then possibly create Category: Classical foo under Category:Singers by voice type as a separate sub cat from Category:Operatic foo . There seemed to be some support for that at the CfD, but be aware that it will difficult to define the categories so as to exclude singers who are or claim to be classically trained but perform largely popera and couldn't sing the solos in the St John Passion or Beethoven's 9th to save their souls, e.g. Katherine Jenkins and Paul Potts It would probably better to discuss setting up either of these two categories with WikiProject Classical Music.
A third option involves re-describing the various Operatic foo categories to include performances in oratorio and as soloists in symphonic choral works. They are currently all of the type "Operatic tenors are men who sing tenor roles in operas for opera companies in opera houses." This was done in April 2008 [6] following this discussion. Although that might prove controversial. Voceditenore ( talk) 16:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
New article, completely unreferenced, although there seems to be plenty of material about it in reliable sources. However, most of them don't call it an opera. I provisionally bannered for WPO but don't know enough about the subject to tell whether this would really come under our scope or is best left to WikiProject Theatre. Voceditenore ( talk) 16:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't think this is enzyclopedic? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:26, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
As it was phrased it was silly, snide and not encyclopedic. He was one of four major stars who pulled out of the tour, two of them even later than he and Borodina did, and none of the sources state that radiation levels were lower than in Europe. His withdrawal was simply cited to "personal reasons". For all we know he may have been afraid of earthquakes not radiation. Or, he may have had completely different reasons which are... er... personal. I suppose if someone insists and it were accurately worded and sourced, it could go in. But frankly, it's a non-event bordering on trivia and I wouldn't include it, especially in an article that brief. Opera singers cancel all the time. It's one of the reasons why I strenuously try to avoid living singer biographies. They get skewed by what people see in newspapers and plunk into the article with no context. More often than not these types of editors know little about the subject and lack any kind of perspective. Or they are disgruntled fans or detractors who just want to put the boot in.
OK rant over.;-) Voceditenore ( talk) 10:33, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Someone dropped a big plot synopsis in this article that appears to be a copyvio (according to a note on the talk page). Can anyone rewrite (and preferably shorten) it in their own words; or else translate the French Wikipedia plot synopsis? Best regards, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
User:Robert.Allen points out here a notable division of opinion as to Falcon's year of birth. Anyone out there got any ideas on this? -- Smerus ( talk) 10:54, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Featured in today's WP:DYK, along with Stradella (opera). -- Smerus ( talk) 13:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
This lady, pictured above on 17 June, had a broad range. I would like to read that in the lead, some readers may not know Carmen, and she sang Nanetta also. In the archive I placed her as a mezzo-soprano because that is not as crowded. Right? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
This new article by a new wikipedian could use some experienced hands. 4meter4 ( talk) 15:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Recently someone created a few new categories: operas based on literature, operas based on plays, operas based on novels, operas based on art, etc. I believe these categories are inappropriate. An opera is never based on a play or a novel, only the libretto might be. An opera composer can get his subject matter from the world of art (e.g. Mathis der Maler by Hindemith), but that does not mean that one can say that the opera is based on art. In my view opera is an independent musical form, that can not be said to be based on other forms of art. Best regards. 81.83.132.137 ( talk) 16:45, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boris Mitchell Voceditenore ( talk) 16:51, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Example: I looked for Elena Garanca (mentioned in FAZ like that) and only after digging further found Elīna Garanča. I installed redirects for last name and international performer's name. Please: if creating an article on a name with special characters, insert a redirect without them! Or might we use the performer's name to start with? It's Pina Bausch, not Philippina Bausch. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations to Brian Boulton (and his colleagues) for bringing Kathleen Ferrier to FA status. Ditto to Tim Riley (and his colleagues) for English National Opera. Both articles have been added to the rotation at Portal:Opera. – Voceditenore ( talk) 10:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 100 | Archive 101 | Archive 102 | Archive 103 | Archive 104 | Archive 105 | → | Archive 110 |
The May CoM is based on this discussion The May OoM is once again a collection of opera articles which completely lack sources, including somewhat surpisingly, The Queen of Spades. Looking ahead to June.... Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I'd be in favour of using this proposal by Smerus, three composers whose grand operas premiered at the Paris Opera
Any other suggestions? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I have a further list of opera articles lacking sources, enough for June, if there are no other suggestions. Voceditenore ( talk) 09:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
A red link editor added a story to Jonas Kaufmann, I reverted as not encyclopedic, he added it again, saying it's all referenced and true. I don't doubt that but still think it's not relevant. Opinions, please, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The article on Andrey Labinsky previously included a reference to Labinsky acting as "soloist Sinoidalnogo of the Znamensky cathedral chorus" after quitting school. I couldn't find any information or references on "sinoidalnogo." Anybody familiar with this term? Thanks. Jo3sampl ( talk) 02:48, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
This unreferenced blp is up for deletion. Not sure if it is worth being rescued. Also, I just discovered a mess of a new article: George Zervanos. 4meter4 ( talk) 04:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
The first one has now been overwritten at least twice with a real mess. As I've already reverted it once today, I've left it, tagged it for the multiple and very obvious issues, and put a note at Talk:Donald Smith (tenor). The second one was overwritten with copyvio paste from the subject's web page by the same editor. I've reverted it and so far this hasn't been re-reverted. I've left a message with more guidance on the editor's talk page, but I'm not sure, how much effect it will have. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Keep an eye on this. An IP changed the cast list and image to insert completely made up names even in the file name for the image which resulted in it disappearing from the article. [2] When I reverted, a brand new user ( B Dizzle DP) restored the IP's edits. [3] I've now reverted that as well and left a note on their talk page, but there may be further attempts. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:04, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Just saw this article. Not sure if he is notable. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
The category is being discussed for deletion or merging here. Incidentally, a least 9 new stub articles have been created for opera singers who died in the Holocaust. Almost all of them appear to need a lot of clean up. I've already "done" Magda Spiegel, Richard Breitenfeld, and Erhard Wechselmann and have tagged Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann and the rest for cleanup. They're at Category:Opera singers who died in the Holocaust, if anyone wants to have a bash at them.
On a side note, I found these articles purely by accident. Alas, the bot that used to alert us to new opera articles is no longer operating (last run 20 March 2011) and looks to be out of commission for a long time [4]. A real pity! Voceditenore ( talk) 12:31, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
One area which I think our project has not collaborated well on is on opera singers. I think it would be beneficial to have a "Singers of the Month" section. Given that there are many poorly referenced singer articles (by which I mean they are either completely unreferenced or lack inline citations), I think it would be best to have this section highlight improving existing articles. 4meter4 ( talk) 02:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Just did a big expansion of this article and in the process, discovered a whopping error in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. See the Musica proibita section re "A common misconception [...]" and the accompanying footnote. Does the "Verga, Giovanni" article by Barbara Reynolds in the NGDO still say what I've quoted in the footnote? Or has it been corrected in a later version? Also, once I've finished off the Gastaldon article, I'm going to start an article on his opera Mala Pasqua!. I presume the exclamation point in the title is OK? That's how it appears in the libretto - there's a image of the cover in the Gastaldon article. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Ah, the (very) mixed blessings of a DYK... The article appeared on the front page today and within minutes, it had an IP trying to "improve" the translation of the first line of "Musica proibita", another IP demanding {{ citation needed}} at the end of a comma despite the 25 inline cites in the article (including one at the end of the paragraph!) and this rather endearing bit of vandalism. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:37, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
I've just crawled under the end-of-May wire and done what I could with Phyllis Tate's opera, but haven't found an awful lot of information. Tate isn't in Grove Opera or the Oxford Dictionary of Opera, and only has a short entry in Viking (However, there's a quote there about the opera which I can plunder). The premiere date is 16 July 1960 according to Cassaglia but 14 July according to Dutch Wikipedia. Cassaglia's cast list differs slightly from the one at Edition Peters. Only one of the refs that I have has anything resembling a synopsis (it's an excerpt from a pre-premiere article in The Times in June 1960, to which I don't have access), and my Opera Magazines only go back to 1972. There are also a couple of articles in JSTOR and The Musical Times, neither of which I can access. All help and additional contributions welcome. -- Guillaume Tell 21:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Fabiano. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:15, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
As one of this month's CoMs, I was planning to create and develop Louise Bertin's La Esmeralda which kind of fits in with another WikiProject I'm involved in. But I don't want to duplicate work. Was or is anyone else planning to work on this one? Voceditenore ( talk) 10:52, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Opera News just reported the death of soprano Jane Rhodes here if anyone cares to create an article on her. Page 407 of The Grove Book of Opera Singers also has an entry on her written by Max Loppert which can be found here. 4meter4 ( talk) 04:05, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Looking for details about Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), I found a performance history of the Theater Wiesbaden, which says 1953-1955, 1957-1958 (p 427). If these figures are the years when it was played in Wiesbaden - which I would assume - it says that it was played more than once (good news) but contradicts the premiere date we had so far? Do other opera sources tell more? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:06, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion, I have nominated the article for deletion as a hoax. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giovanni Francesco di Caspará. – Voceditenore ( talk) 13:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
This article seems legit, but it has no references at all. Can anyone add a couple? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:50, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Just saw this article. Not sure that this young artist is notable yet. She's in the Met's young artist program but doesn't appear to have performed in any major productions yet. What do you all think? 4meter4 ( talk) 00:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Kathleen Ferrier is currently up for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Kathleen Ferrier/archive1. User:Brianboulton has recently improved the article greatly with I believe the aim of taking it to FA. This would be wikipedia's first FA class article about an opera singer if/when it passes. Any comments at the peer review by our project members would be helpful to him in this excellent endeavor. 4meter4 ( talk) 23:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
You may notice that the "Featured Content" section in the portal is currently blank. This is only temporary. The editor who built the portal for us has arranged for a new bot to automatically update the content in that section from now on. Once the bot runs later today, it will re-appear. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:49, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
There are several important August birthdays I think we should highlight. Given the number listed below, I would suggest splitting up this list into two parts, some for July and some for August. Alternatively we could just work on the whole list for both months. 4meter4 ( talk) 09:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Sound good? 4meter4 ( talk) 09:45, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I think a simple bulletted list of upcoming anniversaries, Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Anniversaries, would be a useful thing to have. It can be a resource both for deciding on the XoM's and for individual editors who might like to do something on their own. We can post a link to it as a permanent first message on this page. As for letting the list and "getting on the front page" always drive the XoM's, I'm a little more wary. Quite wary in fact. In my experience, asking for small incremental improvements (e.g. sourcing, adding specific sections, stub expansion) and creation of missing articles is much more likely to lead to participation and an actual result than going for FA. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:38, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I gave Lolita a start, my first attempt at an opera, German premiere tonight, synopsis s. the novel, help welcome, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
As there have been no further responses or updates since 24 October I have archived the discussion here. Feel free to raise it again, if anyone thinks it's important or has any updates. Voceditenore ( talk) 10:21, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
– Voceditenore ( talk) 08:46, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
One is Category:Classical singers as a subcat of Category:Singers by genre (If there are enough of them I guess you could create subcategories under Category:Singers by genre and nationality instead. If the goal is specifically to make it to make it a sub cat of voice type rather than genre then possibly create Category: Classical foo under Category:Singers by voice type as a separate sub cat from Category:Operatic foo . There seemed to be some support for that at the CfD, but be aware that it will difficult to define the categories so as to exclude singers who are or claim to be classically trained but perform largely popera and couldn't sing the solos in the St John Passion or Beethoven's 9th to save their souls, e.g. Katherine Jenkins and Paul Potts It would probably better to discuss setting up either of these two categories with WikiProject Classical Music.
A third option involves re-describing the various Operatic foo categories to include performances in oratorio and as soloists in symphonic choral works. They are currently all of the type "Operatic tenors are men who sing tenor roles in operas for opera companies in opera houses." This was done in April 2008 [6] following this discussion. Although that might prove controversial. Voceditenore ( talk) 16:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
New article, completely unreferenced, although there seems to be plenty of material about it in reliable sources. However, most of them don't call it an opera. I provisionally bannered for WPO but don't know enough about the subject to tell whether this would really come under our scope or is best left to WikiProject Theatre. Voceditenore ( talk) 16:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't think this is enzyclopedic? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:26, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
As it was phrased it was silly, snide and not encyclopedic. He was one of four major stars who pulled out of the tour, two of them even later than he and Borodina did, and none of the sources state that radiation levels were lower than in Europe. His withdrawal was simply cited to "personal reasons". For all we know he may have been afraid of earthquakes not radiation. Or, he may have had completely different reasons which are... er... personal. I suppose if someone insists and it were accurately worded and sourced, it could go in. But frankly, it's a non-event bordering on trivia and I wouldn't include it, especially in an article that brief. Opera singers cancel all the time. It's one of the reasons why I strenuously try to avoid living singer biographies. They get skewed by what people see in newspapers and plunk into the article with no context. More often than not these types of editors know little about the subject and lack any kind of perspective. Or they are disgruntled fans or detractors who just want to put the boot in.
OK rant over.;-) Voceditenore ( talk) 10:33, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Someone dropped a big plot synopsis in this article that appears to be a copyvio (according to a note on the talk page). Can anyone rewrite (and preferably shorten) it in their own words; or else translate the French Wikipedia plot synopsis? Best regards, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
User:Robert.Allen points out here a notable division of opinion as to Falcon's year of birth. Anyone out there got any ideas on this? -- Smerus ( talk) 10:54, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Featured in today's WP:DYK, along with Stradella (opera). -- Smerus ( talk) 13:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
This lady, pictured above on 17 June, had a broad range. I would like to read that in the lead, some readers may not know Carmen, and she sang Nanetta also. In the archive I placed her as a mezzo-soprano because that is not as crowded. Right? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
This new article by a new wikipedian could use some experienced hands. 4meter4 ( talk) 15:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Recently someone created a few new categories: operas based on literature, operas based on plays, operas based on novels, operas based on art, etc. I believe these categories are inappropriate. An opera is never based on a play or a novel, only the libretto might be. An opera composer can get his subject matter from the world of art (e.g. Mathis der Maler by Hindemith), but that does not mean that one can say that the opera is based on art. In my view opera is an independent musical form, that can not be said to be based on other forms of art. Best regards. 81.83.132.137 ( talk) 16:45, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boris Mitchell Voceditenore ( talk) 16:51, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Example: I looked for Elena Garanca (mentioned in FAZ like that) and only after digging further found Elīna Garanča. I installed redirects for last name and international performer's name. Please: if creating an article on a name with special characters, insert a redirect without them! Or might we use the performer's name to start with? It's Pina Bausch, not Philippina Bausch. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations to Brian Boulton (and his colleagues) for bringing Kathleen Ferrier to FA status. Ditto to Tim Riley (and his colleagues) for English National Opera. Both articles have been added to the rotation at Portal:Opera. – Voceditenore ( talk) 10:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)