Talk:I puritani

Is there a reason this is in lowercase? Tuf-Kat 23:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Apparently not. I'm going to move it. &mdash;  ßott e  siηi  (talk) 01:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I puritani recordings
I am wondering if we should remove the references to the BBC because (1) potential copyright issue, (2) avoiding parochialism and (3) because we should have enough expertise on WP to make our own lists without the help of the Beeb. What do you think? Best regards from the WP:WPO. - Kleinzach 22:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC) [Copied here by Nunquam Dormio 07:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC) ]


 * This article is certainly unusual in publishing a 'best recordings' list: it is fraught with problems.


 * 1) The BBC is relaxed about people linking to their site: many wiki pages link to BBC news articles so this article wouldn't be unusual in that respect.
 * 2) If we were to keep a list, it should derive from a number of sources. The Gramophone magazine has a Recommended Recordings database but it doesn't mention I puritani. Anyone know of similar databases elsewhere in the world?
 * 3) I'm not sure asking Wikipedia editors to agree on a set of 'best' recordings would be entirely productive as I can't see a consensus would easily be achieved. We might even get commercial interests plugging their own recordings. If we have such a list at all, it should derive from / point to some respected authorities. Nunquam Dormio 07:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, in the first place, we couldn't do a best recordings section because that would be POV and fundamentally against the way WP operates. What we can do is list recordings or better still do an (objective) recording history. It's easy enough to do a list using Google and there are plenty of discographies on the net. (I have done a few lists of recordings for WP articles myself.)


 * The normal way of referring to other publications is to put links in an External links section. Readers are simply directed to The Gramophone or the BBC or whatever and they find the substance of the information there. This is good way of handling information because it obviates copyright problems and leaves it up the reader to follow the link or not. - Kleinzach 09:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment removed from article
The comment below was placed (wrongly) in the article itself with this edit. I am pasting it here for editors to consider:
 * The first cultural reference needs to be totally rewritten. Prince Albert is coached by Baron Stockmar that Vincenzo Bellini is Princess Victoria's favorite composer, and that "I puritani" is her favorite opera. The first meeting (both historically and in the movie) takes place before King William dies and Victoria ascends the throne. The actual dialog has Victoria catching him out on this coaching, to which he responds "I like Schubert. I think, perhaps, you do not." It was his first break away from the rigid training to win her, and it actually marks the thaw in her attitude toward him in the movie. However, later in the movie, the aria being sung during her visit to the opera after becoming Queen but before her marriage to Albert is from Act III of "I pulitani" as sung by Giuseppi di Stefano in the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala recording, conducted by Tullio Serafino. This is cited in the closing musical credits of the movie.

Voceditenore (talk) 05:03, 20 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I have now drastically pruned and referenced that section. The reference to the opera in the film Young Victoria constitutes a minor factoid which does not remotely justify the amount of space devoted to it in this article. That sort of detail belongs in the article about the film (if anywhere)—certainly in not this one. Voceditenore (talk) 05:43, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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