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Our article Opera is missing anything later that "the 2000s". -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The section in Tannhäuser presently headed 'Game Theory Analysis' (which I did not write) had its title changed by me to 'Tannhäuser's motivations' - as its contents refer not only to games-theory but to Jungian interpretations. This has been reverted twice by an editor without explanation. Perhaps any interested editors could therefore comment at the discussion thread on the talk-page?.-- Smerus ( talk) 12:31, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Should the talk page of Michael McCarthy (singer) be tagged with {{ WikiProject Opera}}? I removed it once ("he's not an opera singer (ensemble in Rigoletto doesn't cut it), so {{WikiProject Opera}} doesn't apply."), but that was reverted: "Restored WP:WikiProject Opera tag (removed in good faith), he was Thomas Inkle in Inkle and Yarico#Modern revival, performed in Barbados, Washington D.C., Berlin and Edinburgh (live link to Covent Gdn). Pics: http://www.michaelmccarthy.net/photos". -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 04:34, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Ladies and gentlemen, I very much appreciate Your work here and I am willing to contribute from time to time. I'm mainly active in deWP where I wrote about 800 articles - and I estimate that roughly half of them were dedicated to opera. I'm very interested in contemporary photography of opera productions and fortunately we get more and more uploaded on WC. Here is a list of available photographs from Michelides/Peralta traveling all over Europe to add hopefully interesting pictures: [1]. If You are interested in pics just send me a message. Although I'm specialized on biographies and opera houses sometimes I also describe operas. Regards -- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 20:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Set designer: IMHO the visuals in an opera production are pretty important. Therefore I've written about forty biographies on set and costume designers in deWP as well as some fifteen on light designers. I hereby encourage you to add biographies on these important contributors to the productions. For example, there are 22 nominees for the International Opera Awards from 2013 to 2016. en WP has only one biography, 21 are missing. See: [2]. And those are just the best, just the tip of the iceberg. I intend to write an article on Erhard Rom ( Nixon in China at the Royal Swedish Opera is his latest production). And I will improve Es Devlin. Would be great if we could at least create ten new bios, help!-- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 18:23, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
(not all articles have been written by me, but in these cases we have a German version and no English version) Greetings-- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 18:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
I've done this ( Aleksandar Denić) as an experiment.-- Smerus ( talk) 20:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
If anyone is willing to look here and mediate in a curious exchange I should be very grateful. I am at a loss as to how to deal with the editor concerned. Thanks, -- Smerus ( talk) 20:49, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I nominated Va tacito e nascosto for GA if anyone is interested in reviewing it. (If you do review it, please keep in mind this is a short, often overlooked, aria and available information doesn't support a 20,000-word treatise on the subject.) LavaBaron ( talk) 00:07, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Maybe this is a bit last minute for November but how about finishing off the missing operas for Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, given he's such an important Italian opera composer of the early 18th century? There aren't that many bona fide Pergolesi operas left to deal with (let's ignore the few false attributions to him):
Whatever the Project does, I think I'll be able to create at least stub/start class pages on these works in the next month. Cheers. -- Folantin ( talk) 17:24, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks - I'm working on a biography of British soprano Barbara Howitt who was active in London in the 1950s. Her main claim to fame (and notability) was appearing as the soloist in the Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film), but otherwise she was generally a second-string singer. I have a sizable amount of reviews and I know of the Covent Garden online database but I can't find anything biographical - about her birth and early years, and no obituary (she was probably born in the 1930s so if she's still around she'd be in her 80s). Any leads appreciated! - kosboot ( talk) 02:57, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
In Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Sadlers Wells, 1963 (The Musical Times, Vol. 100, No. 1399 (Sep., 1959), pp. 469-47); title role in La Cenerentola, Wexford, 1956, " Barbara Howitt played the title-part with sincerity and feeling, and her coloratura contralto singing was excellent. In successive performances she showed that she must be careful not to overdo some of her personal gestures" (The Musical Times, Vol. 97, No. 1366 (Dec., 1956), pp. 656-657); and a few other references in JSTOR....-- Smerus ( talk) 15:05, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Staatstheater Braunschweig was moved. Discussion on the talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:46, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
I think I have done with it. Please, feel free to check the format and grammar. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 04:14, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Laura de Turczynowicz is a newly arrived article; she might benefit from a little care & attention. Specifically the article has little to say about her operatic and theatrical career. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 07:07, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
You guys may recall a couple of years ago, that I was creating multimedia templates for operas consistent with other WP:MEDIAF efforts on WP. Today, my attention was brought to The Magic Flute where the Template was universally removed from all relevant articles. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_November_23#Template:The_Magic_Flute.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:16, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I have just completed it. Feel free to check. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 02:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok, just completed this too. Please check whenever you guys are free. Thanks -- Jay ( talk) 10:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
I've nominated Julius Harrison for GAN. Help is welcome. One of the challenges will be finding a royalty free or fair use portrait. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:59, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Maria de Rudenz was expanded, and the style of synopsis and (even more so) performance history seems not exactly encyclopedic, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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Dear opera enthusiasts: Here's a draft at AfC that may interest you.— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Many of you will already be aware that Brian Boulton has had to retire due to serious health issues. Although not a member of the Opera Project, Brian brought many opera-related articles to Featured Article status and kept an eye on them over the years. Below is a list of those articles. It would help in maintaining their quality, i.e. keeping an eye out for additions/changes like this, if more of us could put them on our watchlists:
Voceditenore ( talk) 07:57, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello! Greetings from Opera Philadelphia. We're looking to update our subject page (the latest info being from 2013), but with the conflict of interest that presents, we wanted to reach out to the WikiProject Opera. If anyone is willing and able to update our page, we're happy to provide any information that might be useful. AubreyNagle ( talk) 20:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Opera News turns 80 this coming May and has several interesting articles from its archives available on its website right now. For instance, this article has Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti cooking dinner together for James Beard and George Lang complete with recipes by Scotto and Pavarotti. See here for other entertaining reads. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 15:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of adding a new task to this project's 'Other ways to help' list ( diff), in the form of a list of circa 1500 female opera singers for which we have no biography - missing opera singers. It is part of the Women in Red initiative, aimed at correcting the distressing imbalance of male and female biographies on wikipedia, currently in a ratio of 84:16.
I hope members of this project will consider putting some of their time towards Women in Red. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 22:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
The daily hour-long radio program Exploring Music now offers all of its 170 or so week-long (5 one-hour episodes) programs online to listen to on-demand [5]. A handful of them are free; the rest are accessible with either a $60 year-long subscription, a $10 one-month subscription, or a $5 per five-hour (5-episode) series. It is an excellent combination of very detailed information and music. I used it, for instance, in compiling much of the information on Richard Strauss's post-1932 career. There aren't a lot of opera composers represented, but there is, for example, a two-week (10-episode) program on Verdi (which I haven't fully listened to yet): [6]. There's also a 5-episode program on Wagner's Ring, which is wonderful for both Ring novices and Ring-heads, and which is one of my two favorite Exploring Music series: [7]. (Hmm, now that I look, there's also a 5-episode series on Wagner himself, which I don't think I've heard [8].) My other favorite series is the 10-episode series on Mahler: [9]; Mahler is evidently a particular favorite of Bill McGlaughlin, the host and writer. McGlaughlin is a composer and conductor, and a diligent and encyclopedic researcher, which he belies by his intimate, down-to-earth presentation style. Lastly, the first seven minutes of each of the 850 or so episodes is free to listen to. [10]. -- Softlavender ( talk) 09:19, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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Archive 120 | ← | Archive 124 | Archive 125 | Archive 126 | Archive 127 | Archive 128 | → | Archive 130 |
Our article Opera is missing anything later that "the 2000s". -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The section in Tannhäuser presently headed 'Game Theory Analysis' (which I did not write) had its title changed by me to 'Tannhäuser's motivations' - as its contents refer not only to games-theory but to Jungian interpretations. This has been reverted twice by an editor without explanation. Perhaps any interested editors could therefore comment at the discussion thread on the talk-page?.-- Smerus ( talk) 12:31, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Should the talk page of Michael McCarthy (singer) be tagged with {{ WikiProject Opera}}? I removed it once ("he's not an opera singer (ensemble in Rigoletto doesn't cut it), so {{WikiProject Opera}} doesn't apply."), but that was reverted: "Restored WP:WikiProject Opera tag (removed in good faith), he was Thomas Inkle in Inkle and Yarico#Modern revival, performed in Barbados, Washington D.C., Berlin and Edinburgh (live link to Covent Gdn). Pics: http://www.michaelmccarthy.net/photos". -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 04:34, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Ladies and gentlemen, I very much appreciate Your work here and I am willing to contribute from time to time. I'm mainly active in deWP where I wrote about 800 articles - and I estimate that roughly half of them were dedicated to opera. I'm very interested in contemporary photography of opera productions and fortunately we get more and more uploaded on WC. Here is a list of available photographs from Michelides/Peralta traveling all over Europe to add hopefully interesting pictures: [1]. If You are interested in pics just send me a message. Although I'm specialized on biographies and opera houses sometimes I also describe operas. Regards -- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 20:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Set designer: IMHO the visuals in an opera production are pretty important. Therefore I've written about forty biographies on set and costume designers in deWP as well as some fifteen on light designers. I hereby encourage you to add biographies on these important contributors to the productions. For example, there are 22 nominees for the International Opera Awards from 2013 to 2016. en WP has only one biography, 21 are missing. See: [2]. And those are just the best, just the tip of the iceberg. I intend to write an article on Erhard Rom ( Nixon in China at the Royal Swedish Opera is his latest production). And I will improve Es Devlin. Would be great if we could at least create ten new bios, help!-- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 18:23, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
(not all articles have been written by me, but in these cases we have a German version and no English version) Greetings-- Meister und Margarita ( talk) 18:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
I've done this ( Aleksandar Denić) as an experiment.-- Smerus ( talk) 20:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
If anyone is willing to look here and mediate in a curious exchange I should be very grateful. I am at a loss as to how to deal with the editor concerned. Thanks, -- Smerus ( talk) 20:49, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I nominated Va tacito e nascosto for GA if anyone is interested in reviewing it. (If you do review it, please keep in mind this is a short, often overlooked, aria and available information doesn't support a 20,000-word treatise on the subject.) LavaBaron ( talk) 00:07, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Maybe this is a bit last minute for November but how about finishing off the missing operas for Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, given he's such an important Italian opera composer of the early 18th century? There aren't that many bona fide Pergolesi operas left to deal with (let's ignore the few false attributions to him):
Whatever the Project does, I think I'll be able to create at least stub/start class pages on these works in the next month. Cheers. -- Folantin ( talk) 17:24, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey folks - I'm working on a biography of British soprano Barbara Howitt who was active in London in the 1950s. Her main claim to fame (and notability) was appearing as the soloist in the Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film), but otherwise she was generally a second-string singer. I have a sizable amount of reviews and I know of the Covent Garden online database but I can't find anything biographical - about her birth and early years, and no obituary (she was probably born in the 1930s so if she's still around she'd be in her 80s). Any leads appreciated! - kosboot ( talk) 02:57, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
In Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Sadlers Wells, 1963 (The Musical Times, Vol. 100, No. 1399 (Sep., 1959), pp. 469-47); title role in La Cenerentola, Wexford, 1956, " Barbara Howitt played the title-part with sincerity and feeling, and her coloratura contralto singing was excellent. In successive performances she showed that she must be careful not to overdo some of her personal gestures" (The Musical Times, Vol. 97, No. 1366 (Dec., 1956), pp. 656-657); and a few other references in JSTOR....-- Smerus ( talk) 15:05, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Staatstheater Braunschweig was moved. Discussion on the talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:46, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
I think I have done with it. Please, feel free to check the format and grammar. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 04:14, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Laura de Turczynowicz is a newly arrived article; she might benefit from a little care & attention. Specifically the article has little to say about her operatic and theatrical career. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 07:07, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
You guys may recall a couple of years ago, that I was creating multimedia templates for operas consistent with other WP:MEDIAF efforts on WP. Today, my attention was brought to The Magic Flute where the Template was universally removed from all relevant articles. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_November_23#Template:The_Magic_Flute.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:16, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I have just completed it. Feel free to check. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 02:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok, just completed this too. Please check whenever you guys are free. Thanks -- Jay ( talk) 10:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
I've nominated Julius Harrison for GAN. Help is welcome. One of the challenges will be finding a royalty free or fair use portrait. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:59, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Maria de Rudenz was expanded, and the style of synopsis and (even more so) performance history seems not exactly encyclopedic, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Greetings WikiProject Opera/Archive 126 Members!
This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:
If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.
Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.
Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.
Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:05, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Dear opera enthusiasts: Here's a draft at AfC that may interest you.— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Many of you will already be aware that Brian Boulton has had to retire due to serious health issues. Although not a member of the Opera Project, Brian brought many opera-related articles to Featured Article status and kept an eye on them over the years. Below is a list of those articles. It would help in maintaining their quality, i.e. keeping an eye out for additions/changes like this, if more of us could put them on our watchlists:
Voceditenore ( talk) 07:57, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello! Greetings from Opera Philadelphia. We're looking to update our subject page (the latest info being from 2013), but with the conflict of interest that presents, we wanted to reach out to the WikiProject Opera. If anyone is willing and able to update our page, we're happy to provide any information that might be useful. AubreyNagle ( talk) 20:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Opera News turns 80 this coming May and has several interesting articles from its archives available on its website right now. For instance, this article has Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti cooking dinner together for James Beard and George Lang complete with recipes by Scotto and Pavarotti. See here for other entertaining reads. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 15:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of adding a new task to this project's 'Other ways to help' list ( diff), in the form of a list of circa 1500 female opera singers for which we have no biography - missing opera singers. It is part of the Women in Red initiative, aimed at correcting the distressing imbalance of male and female biographies on wikipedia, currently in a ratio of 84:16.
I hope members of this project will consider putting some of their time towards Women in Red. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 22:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
The daily hour-long radio program Exploring Music now offers all of its 170 or so week-long (5 one-hour episodes) programs online to listen to on-demand [5]. A handful of them are free; the rest are accessible with either a $60 year-long subscription, a $10 one-month subscription, or a $5 per five-hour (5-episode) series. It is an excellent combination of very detailed information and music. I used it, for instance, in compiling much of the information on Richard Strauss's post-1932 career. There aren't a lot of opera composers represented, but there is, for example, a two-week (10-episode) program on Verdi (which I haven't fully listened to yet): [6]. There's also a 5-episode program on Wagner's Ring, which is wonderful for both Ring novices and Ring-heads, and which is one of my two favorite Exploring Music series: [7]. (Hmm, now that I look, there's also a 5-episode series on Wagner himself, which I don't think I've heard [8].) My other favorite series is the 10-episode series on Mahler: [9]; Mahler is evidently a particular favorite of Bill McGlaughlin, the host and writer. McGlaughlin is a composer and conductor, and a diligent and encyclopedic researcher, which he belies by his intimate, down-to-earth presentation style. Lastly, the first seven minutes of each of the 850 or so episodes is free to listen to. [10]. -- Softlavender ( talk) 09:19, 3 November 2016 (UTC)