Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera

A selection of articles, new or otherwise interesting

• King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw on 19 June 2026
• Mariska Aldrich, who portrayed Fricka and Brünnhilde at the Met and had a prize-winning German shepherd
• Mordecai Bauman, a baritone in opera and on Broadway who used his music to support far-left American politics during the 1930s
• Julius Prott, who portrayed Faust and Lohengrin at the Met and was also a horticulturalist of roses
• Die Stechardin, a monodrama that György Kurtág dedicated to his wife Márta, attending the premiere a day after turning 100

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  The Duchess of Dantzic
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  Fred Sullivan
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  Philippe Chaperon
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  George Grossmith in Patience
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  Falka
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  The Rose of Persia
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  Claude Debussy
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  Doris
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  Dimitri (Act V set design)

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'Do not archive' sections here

I suggest we review the need for the instruction "DoNotArchiveUntil 11:27, 31 August 2029 (UTC)" for some sections here on this talk page. First, I can't see its need for the section "#Many new illustrations from Ricordi now available" which incidentally lacks User:Voceditenore's plain text notice. The section "#Almanacco Amadeus – Che disastro!", should never habeen tagged like this. Comments? Suggestions? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:52, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Mark McCullough (lighting designer) for deletion

A discussion is taking place on whether article Mark McCullough (lighting designer) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark McCullough (lighting designer) until a consensus is reached and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. —BrechtBro (talk) 17:04, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Eyes needed on voice type articles

There is an anonymous editor adding strange content to the voice type pages. The editor was blocked (see User talk:~2026-44126-1) but is now edit warring under a different account at the tenor page. I've reported it at WP:ANI as a block evasion, but in the meantime please keep an eye on soprano, tenor, contralto, etc. The content being added isn't in the offline book sources or online materials cited on the page which is conscerning since they remain the inline citation materials on the page. This makes it look like that content is in those sources, but it isn't, which is a big problem (ie source misrepresentation, false citations, etc.)4meter4 (talk) 03:48, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Update. Tenor is now semi-protected but it would be good to look in on the other voice type articles in case this type of behavior continues elsewhere.4meter4 (talk) 03:53, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music § RfC: amending project guidelines on infoboxes

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music § RfC: amending project guidelines on infoboxes. UpTheOctave! • 8^va? 14:32, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

This conversation ended with the proposed change being adopted. Barbarbarty (talk) 06:09, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

In the context: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov has an RfC, and Maurice Ravel has a discussion to have one or not. Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:08, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Gergiev, Abdrazakov et al

I tried to find some context for Boston's cancellation of Ildar Abdrazakov but drew a blank. There are sections adequately covering Valery_Gergiev#Terminations_after_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine and Anna_Netrebko#Political_activity_and_relationship_with_Vladimir_Putin but I wonder if anyone is up to a main article on boycotts? The subject could of course could potentially be expanded beyond Opera and the Russia-Ukraine war:

Maurice Chevalier#World War II Wilhelm_Furtwängler#After_World_War_II &c. Sparafucil (talk) 04:07, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

RFC on Infobox at Maurice Ravel

An RFC is currently in progress at Talk:Maurice Ravel on whether to include an infobox in the article. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:28, 18 June 2026 (UTC)