Francesco Malipiero

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"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."

—Bertrand Russell: Unpopular Essays (1950), Chapter 7: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, p. 108

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Abschnitt 7

J'avoüeray de bonne foy, que j'ayme beaucoup mieux ce qui me touche, que ce qui me surprend.

— François Couperin, Préface du Premier Livre de pièces de clavecin (1713)

Ich glaube: Kunst kommt nicht von können, sondern von müssen.

— Arnold Schoenberg

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DYK for Die Gezeichneten

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Der Schatzgräber

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Request

I know you are not into the social networking side of wikipedia, but I was wondering if you might be willing to expand some of the articles on operas by Giselher Klebe. Many of those listed in Template:Klebe operas contain only two or three sentences of content. No reply is necessary. Cheers.4meter4 (talk) 19:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I too am not a big fan of German avant-garde opera. If you have time, there are certainly some operas from your area of interest in Category:German-language opera stubs that could use attention.

Anyway, I wasn't exactly sure what had prompted you to retire earlier, and didn't want to potentially scare you off wikipedia again. Your contributions have been greatly appriciated by myself, and I think I can safely speak for the opera project as a whole that you are a very welcome addition to the wikipedia project. I hope you will consider joining and participating in the opera project. For the most part, we all edit within our own areas of interest and there is certainly no obligations placed on members. We occassionally work on articles together, but mostly the project is helpful as a resource when issues come up (i.e. conflicting sources, finding sources, etc). Sometimes decisions have to be made which effect opera related articles across the encyclopedia, so its good to participate in that sense too. Our project is small, but those involved are content driven editors who spend the majority of their time creating/improving articles. Whatever you decide, its good to see you're back. Best.4meter4 (talk) 22:13, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Ignace Michaels

Where did you find English info on him, please? I don't find it in your sandbox any more, should have looked sooner, but was busy with other things. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Here is what I found: Ignace Michiels, konnte nicht schweigen, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The organist will be on DYK 29 August, do you think you could translate the line on St. Salvator's Cathedral#Music to Sint-Salvatorskathedraal? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:44, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, what was one line in a few hours ago is a paragraph now. But the disposition doesn't have to be translated, smile ... and now I was pointed to this: nl:Kathedraalorgel_Brugge! I don't see a link in the cathedral article, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the link! The organ disposition doesn't have to be translated, I mean it. The aficionados will understand, and the others see that it is impressive. I just heard IM play a great concert, and will sing with him tomorrow, DYK? (now q1) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Jules Van Nuffel

Thanks for your help, also with the Lemmens Institute! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:32, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

+ the svm site helped also Joseph Ryelandt and Flor Peeters. Would you like to enter the discussion about Van Nuffel's first name Julius in the de-WP? You can write in English there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for shedding light, I passed the link to the discussion to the de-WP (and translated In convertendo Dominus). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Correct Opera?

Opera in Frankfurt: when Die Gezeichneten was premiered, it was of course not in the Alte Oper (Old Opera), which is no opera at all, but a modern concert hall, built with the outside looks of the former opera house. The modern opera company continues the tradition of the former one, playing in a different building. I think a simple link to Alte Oper without explanation is misleading. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Il prigionier superbo

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Good work on Pergolesi box. I'd copied over from an existing one, but wasn't really sure how to do it. Viva-Verdi (talk) 23:05, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Don Quixote (opera)

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:02, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Schreker singer

Barbara Scherler sang in a recording of Der ferne Klang. Perhaps you want to use the ref for more recordings.? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:10, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I was unaware of the existence of this recording, and have added it to Der ferne Klang article. Thanks again and best regards.--Francesco Malipiero (talk) 17:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Four Last Songs – list of recordings

Hi Francesco. You will have seen that I have added quite a number of recordings recently. I have taken note of your preference for including only those recordings of which you can find an online catalogue entry or review; given that so many companies have "disappeared" in recent years, this is not always possible, as you will know. Fortunately, more and more singers are profiling themselves (and their discography!) on personal websites, so in some instances I have opted for a link to the artist's website. I have lots more to add (I am quite sure that I have more recordings of the Four Last Songs than anybody I have ever met ;-)), so I hope you approve of my additions without catalogue entries or reviews. Best wishes, Iain C. Phillips 16:22, 8 December 2010 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iainphil (talk • contribs)

Hello there. I am glad somebody finally got round to adding more recordings to the list. Don't worry about the referencing: nobody on WikiPedia can claim ownership of any article, so just because I am a bit of a freak concerning referencing of discographies, that does not mean I wish to enforce my ideal referencing format on other contributors. As I already said in the reply to the message from Ondewelle below, anybody should feel free to add any recording they know of to the list. By the way, while looking for a reference for the Söderstöm recording you added, I found another recording by her on the BBC Legends label (with a very favourable review I must say). I am looking forward to your further additions. Best. Francesco Malipiero (talk) 17:57, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello there. Apologies if I got the catalogue details wrong for the Te Kanawa/Davis recording. Also – has not Renée Fleming recorded the songs twice: once with Thielemann and once with Eschenbach? Anyway, thanks for your work on the article – a very useful addition! Ondewelle (talk) 2 October 2010

Absolutely no need to apologize. Fleming indeed recorded the songs earlier with Eschenbach, but me being a bit of a reference-freak when recordings are concerned, I only included recordings for which I could find an on-line catalogue entry or a review. I must have overlooked the first Te Kanawa recording initially, so thank you for adding it. I am sure the list is still incomplete, so anyone should feel free to add any recordings they know of. Regards. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 22:12, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Lulu instrumentation

Hi- I noticed in your update to Lulu (opera)#Instrumentation, there was a superscript ⁸ on Percussion.. Perhaps you have some more details from your source? Also, I replaced the section with a table. Blehfu (talk) 18:35, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Table looks good. I am now trying to figure out how this local referencing exactly works, so I can use this table format in the future. Source was general reference nr 3 (the Universal Edition webpage). Unfortunately, this source has no further details on which percussion intruments are called for exactly. I have re-added the alto saxophone that got lost in your reformatting --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 19:21, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

{{italic title}}

Hi again. I've been haphazardly following the debate on italic title here and here, but not closely enough to figure out what the heck is going on. Do you have more of a clue than I do? Blehfu (talk) 17:17, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Pls see this ongoing discussion. Apparently the original general discussion was closed by a non-admin, and has been reopened. Best. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 17:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Re:Flagicons in opera articles

OK, thanks. WilliamF1two (talk) 18:27, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Referencing Operissimo

Just letting you know, there is now an article on Operissimo concertissimo which can be linked to when citing Operissimo as a source. Cheers.4meter4 (talk) 04:48, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Thks for info. Will of course use this wl in all my future refs to operissimo. Regards. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 17:15, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Alt Gr + e

Yeah, I was bemused. I can just about understand using that template for characters such as ß or Þ but it's not like é is unfamiliar in English (plié, roué, pâté, moiré etc. etc., not to mention André Previn). In fact, sometimes it's absolutely necessary: compare "I see you are wearing a lame shirt" with "I see you are wearing a lamé shirt". Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 11:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Michael Haydn Requiem

If you care to look at it, there's Requiem (Michael Haydn). James470 (talk) 03:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Opiate

Just so you know, that genre change was a revert; I'm not in the mood so you can certainly go bitch at the IP adress that changed the genre in the first place back in August if you want someone to do it to. • GunMetal Angel 20:38, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Just because I was having a bad morning doesn't mean you need to change-up your life. Sorry for my words. • GunMetal Angel 01:50, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Italics

Hey why did you go reverting my edits to opera articles and remove the italic title template? Did you even read WP:ITALICTITLE? Francesco Malipiero (talk) 22:38, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Vadim Repin

Thanks for your help with the section headings of the Vadim Repin article and the exiciting story when you first heard Vadim Repin play in 1989 which you wrote in Talk: Vadim Repin

--Rolandor (talk) 16:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Dear Francesco,

I have a question:

I would like to publish your comment you wrote in Talk:Vadim Repin about you watching and listening to) Repin's appearance in the final week of the QE competition in 1989 on national television in the German equivalent de:Diskussion:Vadim Repin, using copy and paste.

Just tell me, if this is all right with you or else, if you are not happy about it.

An alternative may be if you do it yourself. As you can imagine I am German.

--Rolandor (talk) 13:53, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

The citations at the top of your discussion page

Hi Francesco,

finishing off the most recent thread see de:Diskussion:Vadim Repin.

I like the first two citations of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein very much. One of my favourites is from 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple". (See also here)

Which country are you from?

All the best, -- Rolandor (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I prefer not to talk too much about myself, really. I am actually a rather a-social, private person (being a bit of a semi-public person professionally), and prefer to keep a low profile, social-wise. Best regards, and happy editing. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 15:48, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Keeping a low profile is a good idea, because is is clear if you reveal to much information of yourself you can't collect it afterwards. Best Wishes. -- Rolandor (talk) 21:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ariadne vandalism

I support your revertions and have posted on User talk: 71.103.84.212's talk page a request for him/her to desist. This is also on the article's talk page.

All the best,Viva-Verdi (talk) 16:21, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your support. I am unable to make very substantial contributions to WikiPedia due to a lack of time and available source-material (I consider myself to be more of a Wiki-gnome), but I do monitor opera articles on a daily basis, and will continue to revert unmotivated changes by anon editors (unless of course the edit is an obvious improvement). Best. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Globolinks

Thanks for the template here. I was getting to that, but wanted to put the first draft of the article online before I went through it again. It's hard to find info on the Santa Fe production. Do you have any sources? --Thomprod (talk) 18:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I personally do not have access to many sources. However, I have added the WikiProject Opera banner to the talk page of the article. This draws the attention of the members of this project, and usually results in further contributions from knowledgeable editors with access to various reliable opera-related sources. Best regards.--Francesco Malipiero (talk) 18:44, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I found a cast list from the Santa Fe Opera archives and added it to the article. I also found this article in the German Wikipedia. Would it be helpful to translate that article's plot summary for our article? --Thomprod (talk) 19:34, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Of course it would be helpful to translate this plot summary, since a somewhat more elaborate synopsis would probably upgrade the article to start-class (instead of stub) on the WikiProject Opera quality scale. When you do this, you should add the "translated page" template to the article's talk-page. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 19:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I have taken the liberty of incorporating all the info about the two premieres into one roles-table, a format that is always used for opera articles. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 20:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. The table is much better. I am working on the plot summary. --Thomprod (talk) 00:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Good work on the synopsis. This is what WikiPedia is all about, is it not? Two days ago there was nothing on this opera, now we have got ourselves a nice, start-class article. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 23:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Typo?

Connexion? I'm just old-fashioned. Best. --GuillaumeTell 19:13, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Farewell

All the best! --Rolandor (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:19, 2 February 2011 (UTC).

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