Talk:Les Danaïdes

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Anyone know if this opera has ever been recorded on LP or CD? (Besides the Overture, of course). Anton Mravcek 21:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I added some on normal labels, but I just came across this page... I'm not sure how legitimate these releases are... Lethe 10:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm happy to report that the one with Montserrat Caballé is available on Amazon [1]. I looked at the Yahoo! store, and was surprised to see people are still selling audio tapes. I doubt there are any audio tape players in my house (the attic, maybe). But still, I'm happy to see Salieri operas available on consumer media. Anton Mravcek 18:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Another note - I think the Oehms one is on period instruments, but I'm not sure. Lethe 11:26, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements

This article probably needs a more detailed synopsis. A full libretto link would be good, too. I couldn't find one. Lethe 10:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

You've improved the article nicely so far. The mythological painting is a nice touch.

With the libretto of a Salieri opera we have the problem that the materials we can find would either be too old or too new. If we can find a copy of the libretto prior to 1920 (or whatever the public domain date would be), it would be a huge task of OCR'ing it and then cleaning up all the mistakes. But if we OCR the libretto from the CD booklet, that would probably be copyright infringement, esp. if they add notes like "Not set to music" or glosses for archaic French words. Anton Mravcek 18:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, that's a really good point, I didn't think about it that way :-) Lethe 22:26, 7 August 2007 (UTC)