User:GuillaumeTell

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[edit] Short bio

I was born here, moved to here (or was it here?) at the age of 6 months, 6 months later to here, a year later to here, eighteen months after that to here, after another 6 months to here, where I started school, three years later to here, where I passed the eleven plus, then, when the Suez Canal was impassible, to here (where I acquired my School Certificate and my Higher School Certificate), via here, here, here, here, here and here. Then a few months here, five years and a couple of degrees here, a year each here and here ... then 30 years working as a librarian here, mostly on computer systems (anyone heard of Geac?) and administrative jobs. I took early retirement in 2001 and now live in central York.

My main leisure interest is opera - see External link below. My Wikipedia Username, for those who don't know, is the French version of the name of the legendary William Tell and the title-character of the opera by Gioacchino Rossini.

I'm also interested in local history (specifically York and Leeds), architecture and townscape, food and drink and all sorts of other stuff.

[edit] Current activity

Working on the The opera corpus as follows:

• create articles or upgrade stubs for certain important operas that I've seen

Le comte Ory, Ermione, Jérusalem, Palestrina (opera), Hamlet (opera), Euryanthe, Die drei Pintos, The Haunted Manor, Doktor Faust, Der ferne Klang, Troilus and Cressida (opera),

• create/upgrade articles for other operas that I've seen

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Prinzessin Brambilla, Turandot (Busoni), Le astuzie femminili, Il maestro di capella, A Village Romeo and Juliet, Pénélope, Alessandro Stradella (opera), Eva (opera), Don Giovanni o sia Il convitato di pietra, The Duenna, Siberia (opera), Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, Die Königin von Saba, Fosca (opera), Maria del Carmen, Sarlátan, La fedeltà premiata, L'infedeltà delusa, Rebecca (opera), Violanta, Jonny spielt auf, Inés de Castro (MacMillan), Julietta, Mirandolina, Playing Away, The Rising of the Moon (opera), Elena da Feltre, Il giuramento, La vestale (Mercadante), Madame Favart, Saffo (opera), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello), La fiamma, La donna del lago, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, L'occasione fa il ladro, La pietra del paragone, Demon (opera), Moscow, Cheryomushki, Gli equivoci, Pimpinone, Greek (opera), I cavalieri di Ekebù, Conchita,

• create/upgrade articles for other operas that I've seen, provided that my programmes (if any) for these have a synopsis

Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge, Le testament de la tante Caroline, Griselda (Vivaldi), Orion (opera), The Lighthouse (opera), Higglety Pigglety Pop!

• create stubs for composers who currently have no article:

Nicholas DeMaison, Jakob Haibel, Iain Hamilton (composer), Edward Jakobowski, Hans Lang, Edward Loder, Domènech Terradellas

[edit] Articles created or to which I've made a very substantial contribution

[edit] Articles to which I'm adding from time to time

• ‎York
• History of York

[edit] Handy things

[edit] Google search of Wikipedia etc.

• User:AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult
• AfD
• Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion
• Category:Wikipedia templates
• edit count

[edit] Cite Book refs

[edit] Opera

• Holden, Amanda; (editor), with Kenyon, Nicholas and Walsh, Stephen [1993]. The Viking Opera Guide. London: Viking. ISBN 0-670-81292-7. 
• Harewood, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of (1987). Kobbé's complete opera book, 10th edition. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 0-370-31017-9. 
• Warrack, John, and Ewan West (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869164-5. 
• Sadie, Stanley (ed) (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2. 
• Osborne, Richard (1986). Rossini. London: Dent. ISBN 0-460-03179-1. 
• Adam, Nicky (ed) (1993). Who's Who in British Opera. Aldershot: Scolar Press. ISBN 0-859-67894-6. 
• Leeks, Stuart (ed) (2003). Opera North @ 25. Leeds: Opera North. 
• Budden, Julian (1973). The Operas of Verdi, Volume 1. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-93756-8. 
• Budden, Julian (1978). The Operas of Verdi, Volume 2. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-30056-X. 
• Budden, Julian (1981). The Operas of Verdi, Volume 3. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-30740-8. 

[edit] Architecture, etc.

• Evans, Antonia (ed) (2002). The York Book. York: Blue Bridge. ISBN 0-9542749-0-3. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; and Neave, David [1972] (1995). Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071061-2. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Yorkshire: The North Riding. London: Penguin Books. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; and Radcliffe, Enid [1959] (1967). Yorkshire: The West Riding, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books. 
• Wrathmell, Susan; with Minnis, John (2005). Leeds (Pevsner Architectural Guides). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10736-6. 
• Linstrum, Derek (1978). West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture. London: Lund Humphries Publishers. ISBN 0-85331-410-1. 
• Colvin, H M (1954). Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840. London: John Murray. 
• Wilson, Barbara; and Mee, Frances (1998). The Medieval Parish Churches of York: the pictorial evidence. York: York Archaeological Trust. ISBN 1-874454-19-1. 
• Wilson, Barbara; and Mee, Frances (2005). The City Walls and Castles of York: the Pictorial Evidence. York: York Archaeological Trust. ISBN 1-874454-36-1. 
• Harvey, John (1975). York. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-2993-3. 

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[edit] External links

• My personal website

[edit] Boxes

• My Sandbox
• /Opera in fiction
• /Bellini and Wagner tables

A fact from the article Louis Antoine Jullien, which this user created or expanded, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

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This user is a member of WikiProject Yorkshire.