Talk:The Chocolate Soldier

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austalian chocolate soldiers[edit]

I notice that someone has arbitrarily, and without comment, removed the information about the Australian CMF, using the excuse that there was no reference given. If you remove everthing from Wikipedia that has no reference yet, you just make it more difficult to add references. If you remove everything that you didn't write your self, or that you can't verify from your own personal knowledge, then Wikepedia will be much smaller and much less useful. If you just remove everything that you just don't like the look of, then you should say so in your removal comments, so that your changes can be easily reverted. 203.206.162.148 (talk) 02:01, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, sorry, but there was a comment in the edit summary, and the deletion was certainly not arbitrary. Wikipedia depends entirely on references for its legitimacy. Please read WP:V and always add a citation to a WP:Reliable source when you add new information to this encyclopedia. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference, here is how you add a "citation needed" tag: {{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} 203.206.162.148 (talk) 05:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I just removed it again with the summary: "remove. This pertains to the play, not the operetta and is very very marginal even to the play". The references are purely speculative, and claim that the use to describe 'not real soldiers', etc. derives from the play Arms and the Man, not the operetta. As such it doesn't belong in this aricle at all. It is also a bit of not very well-sourced trivia that probably doesn't belong in the article about the play either.Voceditenore (talk) 06:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

oocities[edit]

oocities.com/musictheater/chocolate/chocolate.html Extensive analysis of The Chocolate Soldier. This cite is coming up on the blacklist. Can anyone fix it? -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:25, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The bigger question is does this source meet WP:RS/WP:V? Who created it?--Crossmr (talk) 02:26, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Voice type[edit]

Interesting that the part of Bumerli calls for a tenor, yet the first three I come across, C. H. Workman, Leslie Gaze and Gregory Stroud are described as baritones. Doug butler (talk) 07:30, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Make that four: Charles Walenn. Doug butler (talk) 07:52, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked at the score on IMSLP. Bumerli sings to G# at the top, with a lot of F#s and some Gs, but generally sings comfortably in the staff and takes the lower harmonies with Nadine. There are no particularly low notes. It's not a super high tenor, but I'd definitely call it a tenor. A good higher baritone should be able to get away with it. Here's a recent review with a tenor singing the role in a well-reviewed Munich production. Tenor Derek Oldham sang it in London a hundred years earlier. See this and this. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nice, thanks. Doug butler (talk) 05:56, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Possibly more relevant photo[edit]

Possibly more relevant to have this actual publicity still from a production than a picture of the composer. I leave it to someone else to make the actual decision, though. - Jmabel | Talk 00:37, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. In addition, this image does not even identify which production it was, or which scene is being played. -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:04, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]