Talk:Stephen Storace

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[edit] Dates

Birthdate differs from Find-A-Grave. Lincher 03:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expanded

I've expanded this article considerably, and made a number of corrections, as follows: - "Doktor und Apotheker" is a work by Dittersdorf, not by Storace. Storace was only the "arranger" for some performances of it in an "English" version. - Storace's most important work, "Dido, Queen Of Carthage" was missing from the article entirely - presumably because it wasn't known to the original author, as no copy has survived (it is known only from theatrebills of the period) - Storace didn't die during rehearsals for "The Iron Chest", as he completed the work - he was already working on "Mahmoud, Prince Of Persia" when he died (the latter work is also omitted from the article) - I've added a lot of biographical detail, mined from Kelly's "Musical Reminiscences" years ago - I no longer have a copy of that book, nor do I have the time to be able to track-down all the info a second time. Reiner Torheit 11:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Can I ask if that is all your own work- if it is can you say what are the sources for the information? Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 17:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Almost all the information is taken from Michael Kelly's "Musical Reminscisences", which is the main primary source material about the Storace operas (Kelly himself was the leading tenor in all of Storace's works). I have left all of the original material from Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which made-up the entire article before my editReiner Torheit 08:12, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I deleted the incorrect information about Nancy Storace having been pregnant at the premiere of "I sposi malcontenti" and giving birth to a still-born child. This is wrong and has been corrected in the recent literature.--Suessmayr 05:44, 30 September 2007 (UTC)