Talk:Opera in Latin America/Archive 1

Is this a transwikied article?
Is some or all of this article translated from Ópera en América Latina on the Spanish Wikipedia? If so this must be attributed. Please see Copying within Wikipedia. Voceditenore (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoops! I missed the transwikied box at the top of this page. Voceditenore (talk) 19:16, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Error corrected - probably one of many
I have removed the phrase in bold from the following:


 * Guatimotzin by Aniceto Ortega (Mexico), based on a novel by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda;

The opera's libretto was written by the Mexican poet, José Tomás de Cuellar. I have found no reliable sources to suggest that it was based on Gómez de Avellaneda's novel, Guatimozín, último emperdor de México, which merely happens to be on the same subject. The only sources that claim this are the Spanish Wikipedia article (which is very poorly referenced with no inline citations) and its mirrors. I suspect this version on English Wikipedia which is a translation from the Spanish one and entirely unreferenced is riddled with errors like this. Voceditenore (talk) 16:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. That was why I brought this article to the project's attention in the first place. There are also some glaring ommissions like the coverage of opera in Argentina which arguably is home to Latin America's most important opera house, the Teatro Colón. There really is no mention of the opera houses in Latin America in this article which seems strange to me.4meter4 (talk) 16:14, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Additional citations
Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 05:22, 6 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I've just now added a few more references from articles I've written. But, given that this lengthy article had exactly one reference from one source (a generic link to the Teatro Colon database), I'd say just about everywhere. To be more specific, all claims that a particular opera was the first of anything or evaluative claims. Here are three a prime examples:


 * In 1711, the opera Partenope premiered in Mexico City. Its music was by Manuel de Zumaya, the most important Mexican baroque composer. This opera is particularly important because it was the first opera composed in North America and the first opera composed in the Americas by someone from the Americas.


 * The first Venezuelan opera was El maestro Rufo Zapatero, an opera buffa composed by José María Osorio in 1847. (However, many have called Virginia, by José Ángel Montero, the first Venezuelan opera, though it premiered in 1877 under the auspices of "Ilustre Americano" Antonio Guzmán Blanco.)


 * Today, most operatic activity in Venezuela takes place at Teatro Teresa Carreño. Here, operas such as El Páramo by Alexis Rago and Los martirios de Colón by Federico Ruiz have recently premiered. [Also, what does "recently" mean? Impossible to know without a reference]


 * But the article is full of stuff like this And probably quite a few errors as well, which would come to light in the process of supplying references to high quality sources.Voceditenore (talk) 07:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Comment transferred from article
I have transferred the comment below from the article, where it had been placed  by 108.76.248.43. Comments like this belong here on the talk page. - Voceditenore (talk) 18:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * NOTE: Cuban composers have written more Zarzuelas (Spanish Opera) and classical pieces than all of the Latin American composers mentioned in this article together, yet there is not one Cuban composer mentioned in it, the cultural influence of that country in all musical formats is immense but it seems that there is absolute bias on behalf of the writer of this article or perhaps they  consider Cuba part of Spain and not Latin America. There have been serious Cuban opera, operetta And many studies, rhapsodies and classical compositions written since the end of the 17th century and beginning to the 19th, not  to mention the proliferation of composers in the 20th century and its influence all over the world. Since the 1770’s all important European opera troupes visited Havana first and then went on to Buenos Aires, not Mexico or Peru since the journey was very hazardous, the great theatres of Cuba and Argentina existed centuries before Bellas Artes opened it’s doors, let it be said that This article mentions many countries in Latin America of greater less importance culturally and leaves out perhaps purposefully one of the most important contributors and propagator of Opera and Spanish Operetta in this hemisphere, therefore is absolutely incomplete or bad intentioned since I do not think its ignorance.