Talk:Gabriele Schnaut

Upcoming engagements
I have removed this inappropriate addition to the article:
 * Upcoming engagements include in 1914 [the editor obviously meant 2014] her role debuts as Adelaide in Arabella by Richard Stauss, conducted by Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper, and as Leokadja Begbick in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. At the Bayerische Staatsoper, she will sing Herodias in Salome, and Klytämnestra, both in Elektra and in the premiere of Jörg Widmann's Babylon.

When/if these performances have taken place, they can be re-added. This is an encyclopedia article—not a news-letter or an alternative web site for singers. Future performances should only be listed if they have received significant independent coverage. Voceditenore (talk) 06:51, 12 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Once there may be sources: the part in Widmann's Babylon is Euphrat, see reference Munich. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 13 December 2013 (UTC)


 * A search reveals that the premiere of Babylon has already taken place (October 2013). Coverage here in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. This can certainly be added to the article. That's why these "upcoming" performance sections are worse than useless and don't belong in articles. They are very misleading. Relative time constructs like "upcoming", "now", "currently", etc. should never be used, in addition to the inappropriateness of writing an encyclopedia article as if it were the subject's web page. Voceditenore (talk) 14:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the research, I will use it. I didn't find since when she is in Munich, and how do we say that she is now? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 13 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you are trying to say, Gerda. It is not really necessary to say she is Munich now. Readers will find that out by clicking on her bio there or on her schedule at Operabase which can be added as an external link. By the way here's a great article in Die Zeit from 1992, which fills in a lot of biographical details and explicitly talks about her switch from mezzo to soprano. Voceditenore (talk) 16:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)