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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)
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. --Kleinzach 02:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
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)
Why is this title (of an opera) not capitalized? Nickrz (talk) 21:03, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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)
This edit from 2007-07-10 introduced the following claim:
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)