Tantris

Maurice Renaud;  Whistle-register nonsense

I am glad you liked the Battistini article. Please see the new Maurice Renaud creation.

I want to propose deleting category:Whistle register singers.

 

What to do about the Unchangeable??

I just happened upon the article related to the legendary 19th Century Italian tenor, MARIO. It identifies him as "Giuseppe [sic] Mario"!

Appart from being an embarrasment, this presuposes that "Mario" had a first name, which he didn't, not on stage, anyway. MARIO appeared on stage simply as plain MARIO. In any case his private Christian name was NOT Giuseppe but Giovanni. His birth name was Giovanni Matteo di Candia. This article also calls Giovanni Battista Rubini Alessandro Rubini...obviously whoever set it up had it in for the name John!

I would just correct the body of the article, but the problem is that up on top, that is to say, the reference title, says "Giuseppe Mario", which I don't think can be changed.

Any suggestions?   

 Mario 

Fine, but there never was a "Giovanni Matteo Mario": it was just plain MARIO, stage name of Giovanni Matteo di Candia.  
Just got your message - we can put him as Mario (tenor). Is that OK? (No harm in having multiple redirects - which are created automatically when we move articles.) - Kleinzach  

I think that would be ideal. Thanks. Please see my little article on Les Indes galantes and feel free to suggest any improvements.

 

Les Indes galantes

I used the schematic template given at your Opera Project site. 

I'm afraid I don't quite understand "we need to write it up, rather than leave it in note form". Do you mean the synopsis? Of course, plots of French baroque operas are semi-non-existent, so they are very hard to detail without boggling the mind. Half of the action is allegorical dance, anyway.

 

If you look at any Encyclopedia under the heading "Napoleon"", you are not going to find the sentence "Napoleon was an Emperor of the French", which sounds idiotic, kind of like "Dubarry was a lady", but "Napoleon, emperor of the French". 

Similarly, If you look up Idomeneo, Re di Creta in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, it does not say "Idomeneo, Re di Creta is an opera in 3 acts by Mozart"; it actually says Idomeneo, Re di Creta. Opera in 3 acts by Mozart; text by G. B. Varesco, after Danchet's libretto for Campra's Idomenée (1712) and the ancient legend.

Not a single little verb in that whole long sentence.