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"The Beckmesser [de] was always Kusche Parade roll." I have altered this sentence. First of all we do not put "the" in front of operatic roles like that, just say "Beckmesser". No need to link to an article on the German WP. "Kusche" should have an apostrophe "Kushce's", like that, to indicate possession. "Parade roll" is gibberish, I suppose you must mean "signature role". I have seen this in about five of your articles now User:LouisAlain, please do not write "parade" role (or roll) again on here, a parade in English is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons, it literally makes no sense to say something or other was a singer's "parade" role. Thank you.Smeat75 (talk) 18:42, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
(watching) The German term is Paraderolle, sometimes Glanzrolle. In English, the same thing seems to be called "signature role". I agree that we should not link to German Wikipedia, but use {{ill}}. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
"Broad" comedy. Any idea why the article referred to "La Roche, the possessed theatre director in Capriccio" until I took it out? What is "possessed" about it?Smeat75 (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
German "besessen", obsessed, or fanatic, or workaholic, - problems with translation get worse when the original was also flowery. When I translate, I usually just cut these adjectives, - thank you for pruning! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
