User:Kleinzach

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Active contributor to the Opera Project (and Opera Project discussions) from 2 November 2005 to the end of August 2006 when I was living in the historic town of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. Resumed writing/editing in March 2007.

Helped revise the project style guidelines section, designed to provide information about opera titles, roles, houses, companies etc. Also a member of the Arts Project.

[edit] Travels

During September I was in Africa (Uganda - including Mount Elgon - and Rwanda), and from October to December I was in France (Annecy in the Haute-Savoie). At that time I was not able to contribute much - especially as my Grove was stored away on the other side of the English Channel! However I'm now in Hokkaidō which will be my base for at least the next couple of years. I got a fast internet connection set up on 9 March, and my online life has now restarted!

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Together with GuillaumeTell compiling The opera corpus, a list of more than 1400 works by over 400 composers (based on the list attached to the Opera Project Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Opera Work List). This is a road map for the development of opera coverage. We now have articles on all the composers listed and we are gradually writing up the opera title entries. Each month we focus on a designated composer and write articles about his or her operas.

With Viva Verdi and Buondelmonte compiling the List of important opera companies and the List of opera festivals.

Also worked on the updating of the List of important operas In company with other project members, and assisted Meladina with his series of Russian opera articles.

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The Record of Singing, the major compilation of operatic singing (and song) formerly published by EMI, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera the main reference work on opera, and a List of opera directors.

12 synopses:

Adriana Lecouvreur, Il campiello, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Don Carlo, Don Quichotte, Eugene Onegin, La favorita, L'italiana in Algeri, Lucia di Lammermoor, Macbeth, Nabucco, Il turco in Italia

3 opera company articles:

Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

3 opera director articles:

David McVicar, Günther Rennert, Francesca Zambello

15 opera singer articles/stubs for:

Hildegard Behrens, Lucrezia Bori, Olive Fremstad, Gottlob Frick, Sena Jurinac, Giovanni Martinelli, Mady Mesplé, Margaret Ritchie, Friedrich Schorr, Elisabeth Schumann, Irmgard Seefried, Meta Seinemeyer, Eleanor Steber, Ninon Vallin, Ljuba Welitsch

37 opera composer stubs:

Pasquale Anfossi, Nicolae Bretan, August Bungert, Pietro Cesti, Carlo Coccia, Paul Constantinescu, Dan Ikuma, Sabin Dragoi, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Leo Fall, Alberto Franchetti, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Moya Henderson, Hara Kazuko, Wilhelm Kienzl, Walter Kollo, Ton De Leeuw, Filippo Marchetti, Mayuzumi Toshirō, José Ángel Montero, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Alessandro Nini, David Pérez, Giuseppe Persiani, Errico Petrella, Giovanni Porta, Aribert Reimann, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, Antonio Sacchini, Saegusa Shigeaki, Sigmund Theophil Staden, Heinrich Sutermeister, Cornel Trailescu, Nicola Vaccai, Yamada Kosaku, Riccardo Zandonai, Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg

50 opera articles/stubs:

Arianna in Creta, The Bassarids, Cyrano de Bergerac, Les brigands, Les deux aveugles, Elegy for Young Lovers, L'étoile du nord, La fille du tambour-major, Flavio, Floridante, Geneviève de Brabant, Gustave III, Hercules, Imeneo, Ein Feldlager in Schlesien, Genoveva, Der junge Lord, König Hirsch, Loreley, Lotario, Lucile, Madame Favart, Margherita d’Anjou, Le mariage aux lanternes, Moses und Aron, Muzio Scevola, Oberon, Poro, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Le prophète, Riccardo primo, Richard Coeur-de-lion, Risurrezione, Le roi malgré lui, Sakùntala, Šárka (Fibich), Die schweigsame Frau, Il segreto di Susanna, The Seven Deadly Sins, Si j'étais roi, Siroe, Sly, Teseo, L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, Venus und Adonis, Das verratene Meer, Il viaggio a Reims, Der Vogelhändler, We Come to the River, Where the Wild Things Are

4 opera terms:

Convenienze, Melodramma, Opéra bouffon, Opéra bouffe

Also templates for opera lists, genres, terms and categories.

[edit] Background

I've had a connection with publishing, including print encyclopedias - as an editor, graphics editor, production manager. writer and photographer - for many years. I've been using and publishing on the internet, including websites, blogs etc. since the early 1990s.

My interest in opera goes back to my childhood. When I was living in Tokyo I had the opportunity of working for many of the world's leading opera companies when they visited Japan. That lead to writing reviews and then starting an international opera magazine website.

Half of my life I've been in Asia (Hong Kong, China and Japan) and half in Britain (Scotland and England). I speak Chinese and Japanese.

(I'm also a professional archaeologist - with several years field experience in China, Japan and Britain - but I'm not writing about archaeology here! Opera is contentious enough as it is!)

[edit] Awards

For political reasons your previous award is replaced with "Hero of Labour (Mining)", first class. (Meladina 10:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC))

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My Sandbox

Laboratory

Article ranking

Singers of the 17-19th centuries

Opera singers

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