Talk:Falstaff (opera)
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[edit] Comment
Why isn't the title of this article Falstaff (opera)? That's the standard we've been using for movie, play, novel, etc. -- Zoe
- will move. -- Tarquin
[edit] Falstaff by... Verdi?
Verdi was not the first or only composer to write an opera entitled Falstaff. Go back about 100 years and you have one by, for example, Antonio Salieri (my personal favourite Falstaff). Regardless of Verdi's fame, this article should not be done so exclusively. Smyslov 18:00, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I added Antonio Salieri's Falstaff ossia Le tre burle to Falstaff (disambiguation). El_C 01:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits to Synopsis
Made some minor edits to the synopsis for accuracy. (Iain Galloway)
[edit] Second comedy?
The article says in the lead that Falstaff was only the second of Verdi's operas to be a comedy. Which one was the first? --Steerpike (talk) 16:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- Un giorno di regno, Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:16, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! --Steerpike (talk) 10:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Page move
The recent page move by Xover (talk · contribs) from Falstaff (opera) to Falstaff (Verdi) seems ill-advised to me. 1) That name has been in use for this article for a very long time, because 2) this is the best known opera of that name; 3) consequently, there are hundreds links to this name, including from other language Wikipedias; 4) the page mover didn't bother to adjust at least two significant such pages: Falstaff (disambiguation) and Template:Verdi operas.
I suggest to revert the page move. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:31, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, I'll freely admit my knowledge of opera is deficient, and relative primacy was determined based on the rather cursory state of all the related opera articles (Verdi, Salieri, and Elgar). However, I do believe that once you begin to need a disambiguator such as (opera), determining the primacy among equals becomes needlepoint work; and this was the only way I could see to have some consistency of naming between them. As for the links, I didn't change them manually because we're supposed to have a bot that takes care of that, but it seems to have not performed its duties in the interval. I would, of course, be happy to do the grunt work of updating the links as required; but if you feel very strongly about the naming I shan't object if you wish to undo the move. --Xover (talk) 05:03, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- WikiProject Opera has a well-established policy on disambiguation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera#Operas:_avoiding_ambiguity. The Salieri work isn't performed very often and the symphonic poem by Elgar isn't an opera. I agree with Michael that the page should be moved back. --GuillaumeTell 10:31, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
