I'm trying to copy and paste here my reviews from elsewhere. Herkku has done his already, congratulations! I encourage everybody else to do it as well. I know it's time consuming, and I'll have to stop now since the folks who came to celebrate Christmas are arriving, I'll continue a couple of days from now.
One problem: Sometimes people start a thread saying, for instance, Richard Strauss on DVD and Blu-ray, but they start by reviewing an opera in their first post, which then doesn't get quoted in the title. When the composer you're reviewing doesn't have a thread yet (and is important enough to deserve one) I encourage folks to post a short post as the first one just to give the thread its title, and then in your second post, you title it for the name of the opera you're reviewing. This is to make it easier to recover reviews using the Search function.
Another problem, this one for Gaston:
It's hard to know when to start a new thread, when to relegate a composer to some already existing more generic threads like "miscelaneous" or "early opera" or "Russian opera" or "romantic French opera."
We need well defined categories, with examples of what works should go into that thread, listed on the thread's first post. I know I'm guilty of it since I've started an "early opera" thread to list a mask by Purcell. But then after I did it (and not being a moderator I can't delete it) I was unsure if this should encompass pre-opera, super-early opera, fringe genres, or should include the likes of Monteverdi, Lully, etc, as defined by "early." So please, Gaston, clean it up for me.
We have a thread called Russian opera and one for Prokofiev.
We have one for "Modern opera" which may be too large. Does this mean any 20th and 20th century opera that is not R. Strauss or Puccini?
Happy holidays to all of you, I'll continue later my contributions to this sub-forum.
One problem: Sometimes people start a thread saying, for instance, Richard Strauss on DVD and Blu-ray, but they start by reviewing an opera in their first post, which then doesn't get quoted in the title. When the composer you're reviewing doesn't have a thread yet (and is important enough to deserve one) I encourage folks to post a short post as the first one just to give the thread its title, and then in your second post, you title it for the name of the opera you're reviewing. This is to make it easier to recover reviews using the Search function.
Another problem, this one for Gaston:
It's hard to know when to start a new thread, when to relegate a composer to some already existing more generic threads like "miscelaneous" or "early opera" or "Russian opera" or "romantic French opera."
We need well defined categories, with examples of what works should go into that thread, listed on the thread's first post. I know I'm guilty of it since I've started an "early opera" thread to list a mask by Purcell. But then after I did it (and not being a moderator I can't delete it) I was unsure if this should encompass pre-opera, super-early opera, fringe genres, or should include the likes of Monteverdi, Lully, etc, as defined by "early." So please, Gaston, clean it up for me.
We have a thread called Russian opera and one for Prokofiev.
We have one for "Modern opera" which may be too large. Does this mean any 20th and 20th century opera that is not R. Strauss or Puccini?
Happy holidays to all of you, I'll continue later my contributions to this sub-forum.