Talk:Die Fledermaus

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This says that the plot synopsis was taken from a book. Is that not copyright infringement? Zephyrprince 05:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"All works from before 1923 are in the public domain." -United States copyright law, assuming the book is from the US. --Sketchee 21:20, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

There's a mistake in the section regarding the movie and TV adaptations: "Germany, 1937 | Paul Verhoeven". This is impossible since the director the link takes to is Dutch and was only born in 1938. If it's another director with the same name would it be more recomendable to remove the link from the name?

Mefistofele, not Die Fledermaus, is the opera shown in Batman Begins.

The eBay reference and the Tick cartoon reference are not in any way related to the the operetta, simply to the german word that is the title of the operetta. These are irrelevant and should be removed.

[edit] Reversion of inclusion of single aria from this opera in "Selected recordings" box

I'm taking the position that, in the Selected recordings area, we can only focus on complete recordings and not create a list of every performer's one-off performance of an aria. I trust that this meets with support.

Therefore I have removed the addition of Charlotte Church's 2001 aria recording (to say nothing of its POV approach). Viva-Verdi 17:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change in synopsis subheads

Message left for editor User:Ashleyscripter: While, in theory, I have no objection to your doing this, there has been an attempt by the Wiki Opera Group to create a standard of consistancy across the board for all opera articles (e.g. no boxes, layout of first performance casts, layout of selected recordings box, etc.

So, allowing your changes to stand, might mean that every opera article would need to be changed to match. I won't change anything now, but let's see what reaction occurs. Viva-Verdi (talk) 19:42, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Austin

I'm a bit leery about this new section on performance adaptations, featuring only the Austin Lyric Opera. I am not sure that this adaptation is very noteworthy. It is far from unusual for topical jokes to be inserted, especially in the third act which is dominated by Frosch (I well remember Dom DeLuise as Frosch in the Met's production, being asked by Frank to look outside and what he sees: "64th and Amsterdam!") Unless this Austin production is in some way groundbreaking, which I doubt, I suggest we get rid of it.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)