Talk:La gazza ladra

Death Threat?

There is a story that Rossini received a death threat for the "offense" of beginning the overture with a drum roll! Does anyone know if there any truth to this? Kostaki mou (talk) 01:52, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

Once again we have trivia items being added to this article. My understand of past thinking on this is that trivia should only appear on musical works articles if it is likely to be of interest to readers of the page. Other references belong on the other page, e.g. The Tintin information belongs on the The Castafiore Emerald not La gazza ladra, because it is likely to be of interest to Tintin readers not to Rossini readers. This is really just common sense, but for guidelines see Trivia. --Klein zach 02:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have to disagree violently with the above comment. Personally, I greatly enjoy so-called "trivial" information found in articles concerning serious subjects. In fact, that is the beauty of Wikipedia: the wealth of information not commonly known about various subjects. Look at it this way: just put everything down that is known to be true, or is verifiable, in the articles. Who are you to decide what I should or shouldn't be interested in? Don't censor or edit what I get to read, let me be the judge of that of what I'm interested in. If it's not interesting, I'll just skip it and read on.65.81.79.71 (talk) 16:21, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why title lower case?

Why is this title (of an opera) not capitalized? Nickrz (talk) 21:03, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is a complicated subject. Have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera/Article_guidelines#Operas:_capitalization_and_diacritics. I'll be happy to discuss it with you. --GuillaumeTell 00:17, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gazza Ladra and Boris Godunov

The comic scene of misreading a warrant to send police in the wrong direction was repeated in a very different opera, Boris Godunov, where Dmitri hoodwinks an illiterate policeman. 50.180.19.238 (talk) 14:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"producer had to lock Rossini in a room"

This edit from 2007-07-10 introduced the following claim:

Rossini was famous for his writing speed, and La gazza ladra is no different. It is reported that the producer had to lock Rossini in a room the day before the first performance in order to write the overture. Rossini then threw each sheet out of the window to his copyists, who wrote out the full orchestral parts.

This claim has not received a citation in the last 13 years. If this is re-introduced, the citation must predate that edit. ciphergoth (talk) 03:57, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting that. The article is quite poor in inline citations and I was sceptical myself. However, I found a source for the claim and re-added it, slightly copyedited and with an inline citation. The claim is also supported in this book. Voceditenore (talk) 12:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK, yes, your citation predates the 2007 edit :) ciphergoth (talk) 18:31, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]