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[edit] Finished my main list

I've added all of my First Division composers/operas that weren't there already; I have a Second Division, maybe another 20 operas. I've never heard of a lot of Folantin's composers, but he's probably never heard of some of mine! On the other hand, a couple of composers who've recently swum into my consciousness (Graun and A Draghi) perhaps deserve an opera apiece - I've no idea which, if any, as I've never heard any of their music.

I deliberately haven't included any composers who are already well-covered, but I do think that it would be good if we could turn all opera corpus redlinks blue for the following composers: Bizet, Britten, Lehar, Prokofiev, Rossini (if any), Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Weill (maybe others too?) - there are only one or two per composer.

PS I see that there is in fact an article for Graun's Montezuma, though it isn't in the opera corpus....

--GuillaumeTell (talk) 22:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added Graun to The opera corpus - also the stats! Please don't hesitate to do this so all the relevant info is there. Please note - as I've told Folantin - I'm dating the individual operas as I think some of the operas - perhaps the later ones - could be presented chronologically ('Operas of the 1890s') rather than by language or whatever. -- Kleinzach (talk) 23:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

None of A Draghi's main operas are listed by Grove. Have there been any recordings? -- Kleinzach (talk) 01:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I haven't heard of any Draghi recordings, but I do have recordings of many of the operas I've added by composers who weren't on the OC, so they won't be a problem. Another composer who needs an opera on the list is the modern Italian Gian Francesco Malipiero, but he was so prolific I didn't know which one to choose. Do any of his operas have a separate article in Grove? "I do think that it would be good if we could turn all opera corpus redlinks blue for the following composers: Bizet, Britten, Lehar, Prokofiev, Rossini (if any), Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Weill (maybe others too?) - there are only one or two per composer". Sure. We should probably create a separate section on the page for those (Dvorak is another we've nearly completed). --Folantin (talk) 09:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes I agree that a separate section would be good. -- Kleinzach (talk) 09:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I've spent some time googling Draghi. Apart from some arias, only an oratorio has been recorded, as far as I can see, and the Viking doesn't list anything for any of the operas. (He seems to be in the running for composer who wrote most operas, though.) There have been some recent performances of La patienza (or pazienza) di Socrate con due moglie, but that's about it. So he's out.

Malipiero - Grove has articles on eight of his operas. Viking has articles on three of those and one other. --GuillaumeTell (talk) 11:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)