Talk:Carmen

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October 21, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
December 19, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
December 21, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

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1820 or 1830

Is there a need for an amendment, or at least a note about the date. The libretto gives the date of the action as 1820:

the libretto as uploaded on wikisource: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmen_(op%C3%A9ra)
also my editions of Kobbé and Oxford Companion to Music give 1820
In recordings; ones I have where a date is given they are all 1820 (Wolff, Cohen, Fruhbeck de Burgos)

but my edition of Grove gives 1830... Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 21:24, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No comments or objections, so I will make a change with a footnote. Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 23:22, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Standardization of the word Gypsy

If no one disagrees, I'm going to change all instances of "gypsy" to "Gypsy", as it's a proper noun. EDIT: Except for the one instance of "gypsy life" in which it clearly refers to the perceived lifestyle of the Romani people. Sailorknightwing (talk) 22:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Toreador or Torero

Shouldn't Escamillo be described as a Torero, rather than as a Toreador? Wikipedia claims that people fighting bulls in the arena are Toreros, Toreador is not recognised. "Asterix in Spain" has a specific note from the author saying that Torero is the real word, not Toreador. ;)