Talk:Gaetano Donizetti

message: Can somebody tell me if the arietta " a mezza note" also known as "quando notte sara oscura"  is part of an opera or it is just an arietta that donizzeti wrote?Please!!! i have to sing it  and to know everything about in !
rocsyno1@yahoo.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.180.209.188 (talk) 13:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A mezzanotte  ! 

message: There seem to be some typos in the Works: Quartet section (some are mentioned twice), or is it my idea? --Chrysalifourfour (talk) 15:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Typos

message: Having just uploaded this, I shall leave it to others to determine the Class level. Viva-Verdi (talk) 19:26, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't disagree with the WP:WikiProject Opera's A-rating for this article, but it's now oddly the project's only such rated article, and the Start-rating for the WP:WikiProject Composers and the C-rating for the biography project seem jarring. Following Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Assessment, should they all be "Good Article"? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:48, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I've never been quite sure as to whether WP:Opera editors can make judgments about other Projects' categories, but I suppose that there is no reason not to.  I guess that if WPO regards as a GA, then it makes sense to be consistent. As the major editor expanding the article, I'm not unhappy to see as a GA. Viva-Verdi (talk) 16:23, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have the same hesitation about other projects. As for GA: isn't there some process necessary to apply that rating? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:41, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

text: Shall have to check on the guidelines. As far "A", I guess I assumed that it came right before "B" and didn't realise that "Good article" comes in between them.... Viva-Verdi (talk) 17:19, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops – I was under the same misapprehension; I thought "GA" was higher than "A" and that's why it needed a review. Turns out that Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Assessment says: "Assessing an article as A-Class requires a formal written review by more than one impartial reviewer." I suppose that without any independent assessment, the rating here has to be taken down to "B" (and apply that to the other projects, too). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major expansion of this article today 

message: What utter nonsense. Mozart never was Court capellmeister. He was a minor "Kammer-Kompositeur".--88.117.69.40 (talk) 18:17, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "... the same post which had been held by Mozart." 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In the section "The final journey to Bergamo" the phrase "until a serious bout of apoplexy occurred" appears. Shouldn't this be updated to intelligible modern English as "until he had a [series of] stroke[s]"? Hopefully the source would make clear whether it was one or more ("bout" inconclusively suggests several). 98.14.15.215 (talk) 21:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "a serious bout of apoplexy" 

message: Donizetti was never diagnosed with syphilis. The method to diagnose syphilis was invented but in 1906. During Donizetti's lifetime no physician ever reached this dagnosis. The hypothesis that the composer had suffered from syphilis was only put forward by Cappelli in 1887 (G. Cappelli: La calotta cranica di Donizetti. In: Archivo italiano per le malattie nervöse 14, 1887, p. 135-153). There's no proof that Donizetti ever suffered from syphilis, there were no symptoms, nothing. This theory is entirely based on posthumous presumptions. Donizetti died of a series of strokes.--Suessmayr (talk) 09:40, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Two things: 1) The correct term is “neurosyphilis”. and 2) Agree this should be either deleted or clearly identified as only a speculative retrospective diagnosis. Markhh (talk) 15:26, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "in August 1845 when he was diagnosed with cerebro-spinal syphilis" 

message: This article is mostly biography. It could do with a section about Donizetti's reputation today, and which of his operas are still performed. cagliost (talk) 14:49, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical reception / reputation today