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Rainelle Krause, who was able to perform Mozart's "Queen of the Night aria" while doing aerial silks upside down
Helene Pons, a costum designer for Broadway and the Met who patented the first commercial underwire bra
Clara E. Thoms, a soprano who portrayed Lucrezia Borgia and L'Africaine, after touring the United States as a concert pianist at the age of eight
Ritva Auvinen, a soprano who performed premieres at the National Finnish Opera including leading roles in Kokkonen's The Last Temptations and Sallinen's The Red Line
Amor vien dal destino, an opera by Agostino Steffani based on the Aeneid with a contralto in the female lead role, comic scenes with her tenor nurse, and varied sound effects including four chalumeaus

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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)[reply]

Erhard Rom

Erhard Rom Studio: https://www.erhardrom.com/ ~2026-93287-9 (talk) 17:29, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but this talk page is not for article proposals. Is this copied from a source with copyright? Then remove it instantly. If you wrote it yourself, I suggest you create an account, and then put this in a sandbox, or you place it in Draft:Erhard Rom, and we can discuss. Please get rid of all the bolding, - only the article name should be bold. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:43, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: @~2026-93287-9: I moved the content to Draft:Erhard Rom. If this was copypasted from somewhere you will need to remove that and rewrite it using your own words. Best.4meter4 (talk) 18:26, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/363

Editors may wish participate in this event at WP:WikiProject Women in Red featuring opera and theater works by women. Any articles on operas by women would be appreciated. Sorry for the belated notice. I wasn't aware February was the month we were doing this until just now.4meter4 (talk) 19:18, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]