Talk:Ezio

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Why "(Latin Aetius)" after the title of the opera? Is the opera or the character in the opera (as opposed to the historical personage) referred to as Aetius? My guess is no, so I don't think that is needed. The connection to the historical Aetius is mentioned further down. --Macrakis 16:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi. This is our style for opera articles - similar to that used in other encyclopedias. We usually give an English equivalent (for the name of the opera) in parentheses - this time it is Latin.

I am not familiar with your user name. Have you just started writing about opera? If so you are very welcome. Handel is the opera composer of the month on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera. There is a lot to do. The Handel articles are generally rather threadbare and poorly worded. There is a list of them on the project page. etc. Regards. - Kleinzach 18:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I know very little about opera. I started from the Aetius article, noticed that the opera Ezio had Aetius as protagonist, and made sure the link was made on both ends.

As for "(Latin Aetius)", I'm still not sure I understand the scheme. Would the opera Edipo re have the annotation (Greek Οἰδίπους Τύραννος) or (Latin Oedipus Rex)? Why? The opera was never called by those names, and the character is presumably wikilinked to the original.... --Macrakis 20:02, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Which opera do you have in mind? The Leoncavallo? It's a rare beast so there is no article about it here - or in Grove. But in theory we would presumably use Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King. It's basically for identification - but also because Wikipedia has guidelines about the use of foreign/English names.

This has never been much of an issue - although some people have tried to translate everything into English which we have resisted - partly because there is normally a synopsis explaining the story. In any case we are only following the style of other encyclopedias.

What do you mean when you say the character is presumably wikilinked to the original? Which character and which original? - Kleinzach 20:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I am still confused, I'm afraid. The article starts "Ezio (Latin Aetius)"; if it were to be in English, I don't understand why the word "Latin" is needed; on the other hand, Aetius is unfamiliar enough nowadays that I'm not sure the English name is much help! As for the Wikilinking, in the sentence about the protagonist which I added, I linked Flavius Aetius, so if the reader wants to know about the historical personage Flavius Aetius on which Handel's fictional character Ezio is based, the reader can follow the link. That's all. --Macrakis 21:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I am also a little confused about why we having a such a long discussion about this. I have deleted the word Latin which I agree is not essential in this case. Is that OK now? I assume that someone will add a proper synopsis in due course - without which the article will be incomplete - and the sentence you wrote will be subsumed within it. - Kleinzach 23:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, these discussions can get much too long too quickly. It's much clearer now. I had assumed that the tag "Latin" was there for some important reason and was trying to puzzle it out. --Macrakis 23:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

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