Talk:The Fiery Angel (opera)

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References[edit]

(The first two entries are moved from Atavi's and Viva-Verdi's talk pages)

Hi there, I noticed you converted the various cite-this templates to plain external links in the article The Fiery Angel. I think that if only for cosmetic reasons, the templates are better. As for whether the inline citations contain the actual links or if they should be in the "References" section I don't know.--Atavi (talk) 16:16, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments on my talk page.

Since we are constantly asked to provide "evidence" for certain statements made in articles, it seemed to be more logical to move the 3 refs from the Sources list and expand them further than is possible with that template concept (which often just adds more and more to the page) as specific justifcations for the statements you make.

My other thought is that, the more detailed the ref and the more one knows about its source, the more justified one is in using it. So Phillip Huscher's program notes for the Chi. Symph. Orchestra which in your version read simply as "Chicago Symphony No. 3 Program Notes" with no link to the source, is now more specific and links directly. The others do too.

Viva-Verdi (talk) 19:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The program notes were not linked to in the inline reference, but they were linked in the references section. The same was true for all the sources.

The templates provide all the information that one could possibly think of in a readable way.

Anyway, I think you prefer that the whole of the information should be in the inline reference and not in the references section, which is fine by me. I will change the references in the article, so you can see how it looks like —by no means should you consider this unilateral action. If you don't like it we can discuss it further, and change it again....--Atavi (talk) 06:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coincidence and possibly too trivial[edit]

According to the notes to Järvi's DG recording, while composing the opera, Prokofiev was living very nearby the woman who inspired the original novel - a fact of which the composer was ignorant (need to check aforementioned notes and find out what are its sources as well, but if true, this is an amusing bit of trivia) Schissel | Sound the Note! 00:02, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Opening[edit]

Why does this article open like a bad undergraduate essay? All that unqualified talk of "challenges" and things being "factors in the piece's progress" (whatever that means - does the author mean factors in the progress of its composition and production?).

"The journey to completion was not truly over until after Prokofiev’s time". His "time"! The author means Prokofiev was dead when it was eventually produced.

It feels like it's been copied and pasted. iPhil (talk) 11:17, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]