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I have just completed this.. and I am surely believe it needs a bit of tender loving care. Feel free to check / edit. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 11:30, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Done with this too. Feel free to check and add on. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 19:57, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi guys, I noticed our navigation templates have changed, and some of the top-right vertical templates are no longer being used, such as Template:Giordano operas, Template:Orff operas, Template:Davies operas, Template:Suppé operas, Template:Heggie operas. I also noticed the inconsistency in the usage of navigation template in opera articles.
I have received 4 deletion nomination for vertical templates, in which 3 have been deleted because they are no longer being used. I created many of these templates back in 2007 / 2008 when they were our standard navigation templates. I am OK with the new version (horizontal) but it has to be consistent. If we want to use the horizontal type, then, the vertical templates should be removed / replaced from all opera articles. Let’s discuss about this. -- Jay ( talk) 14:13, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
I have doubts about the following quote in Bianca_e_Fernando#Performance_history:
...he not only followed the method of those numerous servile imitators of the Rossinian style who, lacking that master's genius and distinction, remained unaware that in the fine arts, not copies, but creations are wanted, not imitations, but originality.
From context it should be a positive quote, but seems rather damning presented like this. Is part of the quote missing? The reference comes from p.241 of
Can anyone check it? Scarabocchio ( talk) 22:28, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Editors may wish to comment on the discussion here concerning the synopsis. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:44, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
An IP has posted details of problems with the article for the Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani, on WP:Women in Red, here. The concerns are as follows:
Grateful if someone from this project could assist - seems like your territory. thanks -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 01:05, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the above topic at Talk:John Vickers (disambiguation)#Requested move 18 February 2017 may be of interest. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 21:09, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
File:CollaborationKit_screenshot_CreateCollaborationHub.png
23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicola Martinucci for members who may wish to comment. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:31, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
At Talk:Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts there is a proposal to merge Atlas (opera) (the original stage work) into the article about a recording of the work, Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:38, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
I wanted to add the portrait of Émilie Ambre (mentioned in the top box) to a section In art, in Carmen, but there is no such section yet. Anybody to write it? - I created a stub for Françoise de Rimini, help welcome, - there's nothing in French WP and little in Spanish. There must be more in French, but my French is tourist-level, so will better write more on Das Nusch-Nuschi ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:56, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
We have an article Opera House Kiel, which should be Opernhaus Kiel, if we keep it as a separate article. Please see the talk and discuss there, if we need this AND Theater Kiel, and what they should contain if yes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:26, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Following the successful proposal at the Community Wishlist on Meta to revive the WikiProject Popular Pages Report feature. It's been done. The newly updated page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Popular pages. Many thanks to the OP members who voted there. Without peeking, guess what article is currently #1. Voceditenore ( talk) 20:27, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
I added a bit to the stub Françoise de Rimini, but it's still lacking info, such as the first performers. The polt is super-short, but now it's a story with its own article, so perhaps acceptable ;) - Help welcome! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:52, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if we should begin an article Fairy tale opera, because there seem to be fairly many in different languages. A category might be a start. We have French Opera feerie and de:Märchenoper for a start. Märchenoper takes us to a place where it's reduced to 19th century, but Die Zauberflöte and Die Kluge don't fit ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:54, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
I see that our former French was moved to Fairy-tale opera and tries to cover the different traditions, to be expanded, hopefully. Can an opera with "Märchenoper" as a subtitle or description be simply included there, or would it need a source? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:03, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
This is now imo a complete mess. According to Grove and other authorities, (none of which seem to recognize the term "fairy-tale opera") there are two distinct traditions, "Märchenoper" and "Opera fėerie". Then there are other operas that do not fit into either of these categories but have a "fairy-tale" background, such as Iolanthe, The Love of Three Oranges, Die heilige Ente, (or Turandot for that matter) etc. etc. It seems that Wikipedia has invented the term "fairy-tale opera" and has created an article about this invented category bringing these different traditions together, clearly transgressing WP:OR. Can we therefore scrub the existing article and start again on proper WP principles - i.e. separate articles for Märchenoper and Opera fėerie and maybe a separate category, Operas based on fairy tales. Smerus ( talk) 09:01, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Smerus, Michael, Gerda, et al., I'm coming late to this, but one solution for sometime in the future is to stick to Gerda's solution for Fairy-tale opera as a disambiguation page with separate articles on Opéra féerie and Märchenoper and then create a new overview article entitled Fairy tale in opera. That subject is broad, useful, and rather extensively written about [3], [4], [5]. The ROH article pointed out by Antandrus is a good start, but there's a lot of other stuff. Voceditenore ( talk) 14:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
The host on a (fairly longterm) national radio show is repeatedly saying "low-ritz" (first syllable rhyming with "cow"), but I've always heard "law-ritz" (sort of like "Laurence"). Softlavender ( talk) 07:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
The List of notable operas, originally The opera corpus, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable operas and, unsusually, also been proposed for speedy deletion. The reason in both cases: "redundant to List of important operas". -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 09:30, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Archive 128/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Opera.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Opera, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.
Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Went last night to a production of Poppea commemorating Monteverdi's 450th birthday. Now I see the WP Monteverdi article could do with a substantial rewrite. Anybody fancy giving a hand with this? I am not strong on the period myself but willing to have a go. Smerus ( talk) 07:48, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Help! Finding the premiere cast for Das geheime Königreich, 6 May 1928. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:18, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
User:Carolus has twice inserted into the article on Giacomo Meyerbeer a new section headed "Honours", with the information that Meyerbeer received the Order of Leopold (Belgium). Meyerbeer received many decorations from European monarchs as a matter of politeness. The Order of Leopold had no effect on his career, and was not significant in any way - the only connection I know of with Belgium is that he occasionally took holidays in Spa. I have therefore deleted Carolus's edit as WP:UNDUE and invite any discussion on the topic at the article talkpage.-- Smerus ( talk) 10:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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There is an AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alla Ablaberdyeva. Voceditenore ( talk) 10:40, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Personally, I find it very interesting to read about the various singers who premiered 18th century operatic works, and especially to compare the roles in which a particular singer performed. I find that this gives me a better idea of what an opera might have originally sounded like, as we know that Mozart and other prominent composers of the era would often be aware of the cast and their respective vocal abilities, range, quality, quirks, etc. before writing.
This being said, my favorite part of the opera articles on Wikipedia is often the premiere cast list. What is most interesting is the similarity in the Vienna cast for Mozart's three mature Italian operas as well as other prominent Italian operas that were premiered around this time, my favorite of these being Il matrimonio segreto. When I looked into it, I found out that the singers were all part of an opera buffa company that was sponsored by the emperor.
Considering the importance of these Mozart operas and the very interesting and appealing fact that there was a company of singers who Mozart and the other prominent composers of the day wrote for regularly, I find it surprising that there are not articles about the more significant members of the company or at the very least an article on the company itself. Benucci (Figaro, Vienna Leporello, Guglielmo, and Il matrimonio segreto's Count Robinson), Storace (Susanna), Gottlieb (Barbarina and Pamina!), and Kelly (Paisellio's Count Almaviva, Basilio/Don Curzio) all have fantastic articles, and much shorter ones exist for some other singers who were in the company.
However, there is no article for Francesco Bussani, who premeried Bartolo, was the Vienna Commendatore/Masetto, and Don Alfonso, and also seems to be quite a colorful character: http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095538291
Nor is there a page for his wife, Dorotea Bussani, who was also member of the company. There is, however, an article on her in the italian Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorotea_Bussani
It is quite short and lacks many personal details other than the date of her marriage and who her father was. It does state some of her roles, such as Cherubino, Despina, and Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto.
Also interesting might pages be: Stefano Mandini (Count Almaviva), who was married to Maria Mandini (Marcellina): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/638260 Luisa Laschi (Countess Almaviva: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-840 Francesco Albertarelli (Vienna Don Giovanni): http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-22?rskey=SyFcF2&result=1
I began to start a new article, but was quickly overwhelmed technical aspects of article creation. To this end I posted this here with the hope that someone will think my proposed project is worthwhile.
96.236.221.120 ( talk) 21:07, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
My state classical-music NPR station has a weekly art song program (previously called Great Songs, now called Singing and Other Sins because nowadays people call anything that can be downloaded a "song"). It is the only radio program in the world that focuses on art song. The station has a new website format and all of the archived episodes are free to listen to: [10]. Over the years the show has also done exclusive interviews: I particularly recommend the 2013–2016 interviews with Ned Rorem, and the two-part 2013 interview with Christa Ludwig(!). Just Control+F interview. Most programs are not interviews but rather artsong programs with well-informed commentary. Anyway, check out the various episodes if you like! Softlavender ( talk) 04:03, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
A newish editor started "revamping" the following operas a few months ago:
My impression was that there was an awful lot of potential original research, personal opinion, and unreferenced claims being added. The editor responsible has been rather aggressive but has now been indefinitely blocked, so it's safe to wade in. Note that Fausta has already had multiple revisions deleted because of copyvio from the editor in question. There may be more in the others. Volunteers? Voceditenore ( talk) 21:42, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Through it maybe an off-topic, but... A sad misprint has crept into Article * Poliuto that should be fixed. In section "Synopsis", Mitilene, capital of Lesbos Island in North Aegean Region, is mentioned as a place of action, instead of Melitene, a region in the north of Armenia Minor (modern Malatya). 212.34.225.50 ( talk) 09:14, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Help! Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo was claimed by the composer to have been the first opera, but our article doesn't even have an English translation of the title, a location of first performance, something about the topic. I could dig, but have some other projects. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:07, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I have just reverted an IP who re-added the massive and almost entirely unreferenced "In popular culture section". In my edit summary I referred to the discussion on the talk page from 2010 which had a clear consensus for the removal of sections of that type. Members might want to keep an eye on the article and the talk page. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
.. that he died 25 June 1767, soon! He composed many operas, incomplete list here, all blue links are stubs. I volunteer for expanding Don Quichotte, based on German, - anybody else? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:53, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
this serves as inspiration: pieces that have been staged in the last 100 years in the town Magdeburg, connected to him. Theater Magdeburg would also be nice, and expanding Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:43, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher: I saw a fascinating production at the Frankfurt Opera. As it is called a dramatic oratorio, I gave it an infobox Musical composition. Or should it be Opera? Anyway, a poor IP was blocked for reverting several people who reverted it. I feel sorry for the IP. What do others think? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:29, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment on parenthetical information in first sentence. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Fylbecatulous talk 11:49, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Siri Thornhill (or a user of her - full - name) updated her article, which then looked unsourced. I simply reverted, and am traveling. Please watch. Yes, the article was certainly dated, but old refs are better than a singer's website ;) - If she now uses her full name, it could be moved. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:08, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Chemnitz has an Opernhaus Chemnitz, and (as of today) Theater Chemnitz. Do we still need the article on the house? It has a lot of technical info in German, but is just a stub here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:28, 11 July 2017 (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 125 | Archive 126 | Archive 127 | Archive 128 | Archive 129 | Archive 130 | → | Archive 135 |
I have just completed this.. and I am surely believe it needs a bit of tender loving care. Feel free to check / edit. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 11:30, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Done with this too. Feel free to check and add on. Thanks. -- Jay ( talk) 19:57, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi guys, I noticed our navigation templates have changed, and some of the top-right vertical templates are no longer being used, such as Template:Giordano operas, Template:Orff operas, Template:Davies operas, Template:Suppé operas, Template:Heggie operas. I also noticed the inconsistency in the usage of navigation template in opera articles.
I have received 4 deletion nomination for vertical templates, in which 3 have been deleted because they are no longer being used. I created many of these templates back in 2007 / 2008 when they were our standard navigation templates. I am OK with the new version (horizontal) but it has to be consistent. If we want to use the horizontal type, then, the vertical templates should be removed / replaced from all opera articles. Let’s discuss about this. -- Jay ( talk) 14:13, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
I have doubts about the following quote in Bianca_e_Fernando#Performance_history:
...he not only followed the method of those numerous servile imitators of the Rossinian style who, lacking that master's genius and distinction, remained unaware that in the fine arts, not copies, but creations are wanted, not imitations, but originality.
From context it should be a positive quote, but seems rather damning presented like this. Is part of the quote missing? The reference comes from p.241 of
Can anyone check it? Scarabocchio ( talk) 22:28, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Editors may wish to comment on the discussion here concerning the synopsis. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:44, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
An IP has posted details of problems with the article for the Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani, on WP:Women in Red, here. The concerns are as follows:
Grateful if someone from this project could assist - seems like your territory. thanks -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 01:05, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the above topic at Talk:John Vickers (disambiguation)#Requested move 18 February 2017 may be of interest. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 21:09, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
File:CollaborationKit_screenshot_CreateCollaborationHub.png
23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicola Martinucci for members who may wish to comment. Voceditenore ( talk) 18:31, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
At Talk:Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts there is a proposal to merge Atlas (opera) (the original stage work) into the article about a recording of the work, Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:38, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
I wanted to add the portrait of Émilie Ambre (mentioned in the top box) to a section In art, in Carmen, but there is no such section yet. Anybody to write it? - I created a stub for Françoise de Rimini, help welcome, - there's nothing in French WP and little in Spanish. There must be more in French, but my French is tourist-level, so will better write more on Das Nusch-Nuschi ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:56, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
We have an article Opera House Kiel, which should be Opernhaus Kiel, if we keep it as a separate article. Please see the talk and discuss there, if we need this AND Theater Kiel, and what they should contain if yes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:26, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Following the successful proposal at the Community Wishlist on Meta to revive the WikiProject Popular Pages Report feature. It's been done. The newly updated page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Popular pages. Many thanks to the OP members who voted there. Without peeking, guess what article is currently #1. Voceditenore ( talk) 20:27, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
I added a bit to the stub Françoise de Rimini, but it's still lacking info, such as the first performers. The polt is super-short, but now it's a story with its own article, so perhaps acceptable ;) - Help welcome! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:52, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if we should begin an article Fairy tale opera, because there seem to be fairly many in different languages. A category might be a start. We have French Opera feerie and de:Märchenoper for a start. Märchenoper takes us to a place where it's reduced to 19th century, but Die Zauberflöte and Die Kluge don't fit ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:54, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
I see that our former French was moved to Fairy-tale opera and tries to cover the different traditions, to be expanded, hopefully. Can an opera with "Märchenoper" as a subtitle or description be simply included there, or would it need a source? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:03, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
This is now imo a complete mess. According to Grove and other authorities, (none of which seem to recognize the term "fairy-tale opera") there are two distinct traditions, "Märchenoper" and "Opera fėerie". Then there are other operas that do not fit into either of these categories but have a "fairy-tale" background, such as Iolanthe, The Love of Three Oranges, Die heilige Ente, (or Turandot for that matter) etc. etc. It seems that Wikipedia has invented the term "fairy-tale opera" and has created an article about this invented category bringing these different traditions together, clearly transgressing WP:OR. Can we therefore scrub the existing article and start again on proper WP principles - i.e. separate articles for Märchenoper and Opera fėerie and maybe a separate category, Operas based on fairy tales. Smerus ( talk) 09:01, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Smerus, Michael, Gerda, et al., I'm coming late to this, but one solution for sometime in the future is to stick to Gerda's solution for Fairy-tale opera as a disambiguation page with separate articles on Opéra féerie and Märchenoper and then create a new overview article entitled Fairy tale in opera. That subject is broad, useful, and rather extensively written about [3], [4], [5]. The ROH article pointed out by Antandrus is a good start, but there's a lot of other stuff. Voceditenore ( talk) 14:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
The host on a (fairly longterm) national radio show is repeatedly saying "low-ritz" (first syllable rhyming with "cow"), but I've always heard "law-ritz" (sort of like "Laurence"). Softlavender ( talk) 07:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
The List of notable operas, originally The opera corpus, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable operas and, unsusually, also been proposed for speedy deletion. The reason in both cases: "redundant to List of important operas". -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 09:30, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Archive 128/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Opera.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Opera, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.
Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Went last night to a production of Poppea commemorating Monteverdi's 450th birthday. Now I see the WP Monteverdi article could do with a substantial rewrite. Anybody fancy giving a hand with this? I am not strong on the period myself but willing to have a go. Smerus ( talk) 07:48, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Help! Finding the premiere cast for Das geheime Königreich, 6 May 1928. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:18, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
User:Carolus has twice inserted into the article on Giacomo Meyerbeer a new section headed "Honours", with the information that Meyerbeer received the Order of Leopold (Belgium). Meyerbeer received many decorations from European monarchs as a matter of politeness. The Order of Leopold had no effect on his career, and was not significant in any way - the only connection I know of with Belgium is that he occasionally took holidays in Spa. I have therefore deleted Carolus's edit as WP:UNDUE and invite any discussion on the topic at the article talkpage.-- Smerus ( talk) 10:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Welcome to Women in Red's July 2017 worldwide online editathons. | ||
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(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) -- Ipigott ( talk) 10:19, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
There is an AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alla Ablaberdyeva. Voceditenore ( talk) 10:40, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Personally, I find it very interesting to read about the various singers who premiered 18th century operatic works, and especially to compare the roles in which a particular singer performed. I find that this gives me a better idea of what an opera might have originally sounded like, as we know that Mozart and other prominent composers of the era would often be aware of the cast and their respective vocal abilities, range, quality, quirks, etc. before writing.
This being said, my favorite part of the opera articles on Wikipedia is often the premiere cast list. What is most interesting is the similarity in the Vienna cast for Mozart's three mature Italian operas as well as other prominent Italian operas that were premiered around this time, my favorite of these being Il matrimonio segreto. When I looked into it, I found out that the singers were all part of an opera buffa company that was sponsored by the emperor.
Considering the importance of these Mozart operas and the very interesting and appealing fact that there was a company of singers who Mozart and the other prominent composers of the day wrote for regularly, I find it surprising that there are not articles about the more significant members of the company or at the very least an article on the company itself. Benucci (Figaro, Vienna Leporello, Guglielmo, and Il matrimonio segreto's Count Robinson), Storace (Susanna), Gottlieb (Barbarina and Pamina!), and Kelly (Paisellio's Count Almaviva, Basilio/Don Curzio) all have fantastic articles, and much shorter ones exist for some other singers who were in the company.
However, there is no article for Francesco Bussani, who premeried Bartolo, was the Vienna Commendatore/Masetto, and Don Alfonso, and also seems to be quite a colorful character: http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095538291
Nor is there a page for his wife, Dorotea Bussani, who was also member of the company. There is, however, an article on her in the italian Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorotea_Bussani
It is quite short and lacks many personal details other than the date of her marriage and who her father was. It does state some of her roles, such as Cherubino, Despina, and Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto.
Also interesting might pages be: Stefano Mandini (Count Almaviva), who was married to Maria Mandini (Marcellina): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/638260 Luisa Laschi (Countess Almaviva: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-840 Francesco Albertarelli (Vienna Don Giovanni): http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-22?rskey=SyFcF2&result=1
I began to start a new article, but was quickly overwhelmed technical aspects of article creation. To this end I posted this here with the hope that someone will think my proposed project is worthwhile.
96.236.221.120 ( talk) 21:07, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
My state classical-music NPR station has a weekly art song program (previously called Great Songs, now called Singing and Other Sins because nowadays people call anything that can be downloaded a "song"). It is the only radio program in the world that focuses on art song. The station has a new website format and all of the archived episodes are free to listen to: [10]. Over the years the show has also done exclusive interviews: I particularly recommend the 2013–2016 interviews with Ned Rorem, and the two-part 2013 interview with Christa Ludwig(!). Just Control+F interview. Most programs are not interviews but rather artsong programs with well-informed commentary. Anyway, check out the various episodes if you like! Softlavender ( talk) 04:03, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
A newish editor started "revamping" the following operas a few months ago:
My impression was that there was an awful lot of potential original research, personal opinion, and unreferenced claims being added. The editor responsible has been rather aggressive but has now been indefinitely blocked, so it's safe to wade in. Note that Fausta has already had multiple revisions deleted because of copyvio from the editor in question. There may be more in the others. Volunteers? Voceditenore ( talk) 21:42, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Through it maybe an off-topic, but... A sad misprint has crept into Article * Poliuto that should be fixed. In section "Synopsis", Mitilene, capital of Lesbos Island in North Aegean Region, is mentioned as a place of action, instead of Melitene, a region in the north of Armenia Minor (modern Malatya). 212.34.225.50 ( talk) 09:14, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Help! Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo was claimed by the composer to have been the first opera, but our article doesn't even have an English translation of the title, a location of first performance, something about the topic. I could dig, but have some other projects. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:07, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I have just reverted an IP who re-added the massive and almost entirely unreferenced "In popular culture section". In my edit summary I referred to the discussion on the talk page from 2010 which had a clear consensus for the removal of sections of that type. Members might want to keep an eye on the article and the talk page. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
.. that he died 25 June 1767, soon! He composed many operas, incomplete list here, all blue links are stubs. I volunteer for expanding Don Quichotte, based on German, - anybody else? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:53, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
this serves as inspiration: pieces that have been staged in the last 100 years in the town Magdeburg, connected to him. Theater Magdeburg would also be nice, and expanding Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:43, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher: I saw a fascinating production at the Frankfurt Opera. As it is called a dramatic oratorio, I gave it an infobox Musical composition. Or should it be Opera? Anyway, a poor IP was blocked for reverting several people who reverted it. I feel sorry for the IP. What do others think? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:29, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment on parenthetical information in first sentence. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Fylbecatulous talk 11:49, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Siri Thornhill (or a user of her - full - name) updated her article, which then looked unsourced. I simply reverted, and am traveling. Please watch. Yes, the article was certainly dated, but old refs are better than a singer's website ;) - If she now uses her full name, it could be moved. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:08, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
Chemnitz has an Opernhaus Chemnitz, and (as of today) Theater Chemnitz. Do we still need the article on the house? It has a lot of technical info in German, but is just a stub here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:28, 11 July 2017 (UTC)