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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

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[edit] Accentuation

Thank you very much for your message (citing the Académie française) about the accentuation of French capital letters. As you can see, I was right in writing that the French do not use the accents on capitals for reasons they understand better than I, as is explained on the Académie française's website. Since the Académie holds this however to be incorrect, I will use henceforth the correct spelling with accents. Kraxler 15:03, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Apollinaire by Vlaminck 1903.jpg

You put on a tag saying the artist had been dead 100 years, which is not correct. {{PD-art-US}} is more appropriate. I have substituted it. Tyrenius (talk) 01:16, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of important operas

Hi. I see you're working on List of important operas. Before you go any further, would you please read the selection criteria for inclusion. We had to work long and hard to devise a way of choosing which operas to put there that would conform to Wikipedia's policy on neutral point of view. The only way we could do it was to collate lists of important operas published in books on the subject. In other words, we didn't get to pick which ones we wanted ourselves. I admit this is unsatisfactory in many, many ways but it was the only means we could find to have such a list on Wikipedia. Further details on the page. Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience. --Folantin (talk) 09:35, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

NB: Both Dafne and Euridice are already on the page in the section on "Significant firsts in opera" [1]. --Folantin (talk) 09:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
My reply on the talk page (which is probably the best place for this, since others will no doubt have their say): "Both Dafne and Euridice are included in the "Significant firsts in opera history" section at the bottom, as is Lully's Cadmus et Hermione (on possibly arguable grounds but, yes, we need a Lully opera on the page). Don't get me wrong, I agree with you wholeheartedly about the omissions (I really wanted Charpentier's Médée too, for instance). It is deeply unfair to the Baroque era, which is probably my favourite area of opera, but please blame the sources not me. Believe me, this was the only way we could find of making this comply with WP:NPOV. As I've said elsewhere, this list is neutral because nobody is happy with it". --Folantin (talk) 10:00, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
(Trust me, it really hurts me to remove a Cavalli opera from that page, but I can't see what else we can do). --Folantin (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I have the Rousset recording of Roland and it's great. The mad scene and the "supernatural" music are wonderful too. If it were my list, things would be very different (Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus would be there, for instance). I often find these "100 Top X" irritating and this is no exception, but sadly we have to work within the limitations of Wikipedia policy. Anyway, on the bright side, one of my plans for 2008 is to try to ensure that all our articles on 17th and 18th century French opera are up to scratch. Easier said than done! --Folantin (talk) 10:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
PS: You might find this list of tragédies en musique a little more to your taste [2]. One day, fingers crossed, we'll have articles on all those works. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 10:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Ah, remember those are just operas defined as tragédies en musique (that's why Acis et Galatée isn't there either). --Folantin (talk) 10:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I replied on Moreschi's talk page. Wickedly, on second thoughts, I was tempted to leave your version up as long as possible! --Folantin (talk) 11:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cherubini

Salut. I took the comment about Les A being Cherubini's "last serious opera" straight from my source. On the other hand, as you say, there is Ali Baba. I've never heard any of it apart from the overture and I've always assumed it was comic, perhaps because of the association of Ali Baba with pantomime in the UK. I will do a bit more research (as far as I remember, the opera was mercilessly ridiculed by Berlioz in his "Memoirs"), but it does look as though that statement could be a little questionable. As for "standard", according to my dictionary it's the correct translation of étendard. In English, a standard is not just any old flag but implies a military banner. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 13:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] L'inganno felice

I simply took the translation of the title from The Viking Opera Guide. According to my Italian dictionary, the primary meaning of felice is indeed "happy", but it also has a secondary meaning of "lucky, fortunate". Although the opera is a farsa, it isn't particularly comic so I think the main sense is a "deception which turned out for the best". Therefore I would stick with the current title.

Incidentally, it looks like Marc-Antoine Charpentier and André Campra are to be Composers of the Month for April at Project Opera. You might be interested. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 10:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Franco-Provencal

Hi there, just letting you know that Franco-Provencal has been added to WP:France. Regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 19:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)