Talk:Nancy Storace

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I have removed the template {{WPAFC}}. It doesn't make any sense. This article was not created by an anonymous contributor. It was created in March 2007. The editor who placed this banner, User:Delldot has contributed nothing to this article.Will someone from this project please explain why this banner was placed here? Voceditenore 21:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it was started by an anon- the article was merged from [1]. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 22:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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New file File:Anna Selina Storace by Benjamin Van der Gucht.jpg[edit]

Recently the file File:Anna Selina Storace by Benjamin Van der Gucht.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 02:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation[edit]

In the article we are told that Storace is to be pronounced as "Sto-'ra-che" ??? There is not yet any pronunciation given in the Wikipedia article about her brother, the composer, Stephen Storace. Their father was Italian. Their mother was English. They were born in London, England. Both of their first names were English names--not Italian names: Nancy and Stephen. I have a huge suspicion that their surname was pronounced "'Store-uhs" in England: just as it looks to any English speaking person. Is there anything known about that? Remember, many prominent people who became British Subjects in earlier times re-spelt their names. Georg became George. George Frideric Handel. And he dropped the umlaut from his surname. It was no longer pronounced with an A-umlaut. There are numerous others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.71.8.54 (talk) 10:16, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anon, I can understand your intuitions on this point but we really have to do with the published reference sources and Robbins Landon tells us that the Italian pronunciation was employed. If you find references that say otherwise, it would be fine to change the article accordingly, citing them. Opus33 (talk) 21:06, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I have read that at the time English audiences had a strong bias for foreign performers; perhaps this was an incentive for Storace to Italianize herself. Opus33 (talk) 21:06, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Year of birth[edit]

I, and two editors have reverted the attempts to change her year of birth from 1765 to 1763. All published reliable reference works give 1765. Speculation and extrapolation from a picture of her memorial stone, allegedly giving her age at death as 54 on Find-a-Grave is completely inappropriate. IP 68.146.78.244, please do not revert this again, do not place inappropriate commentary and speculation in the body of the article, and find a published source which gives any other date apart from 1765 or 1766. Incidentally, the 1766 date has been shown to be an error stemming from her father using the later date since he was "marketing" her as child prodigy. See:

Philip H. Highfill et al. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 14, S. Siddons to Thynne, p. 295. Southern Illinois University Press.

Voceditenore (talk) 19:12, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Most genealogists will tell you that a gravestone is not necessarily a reliable source of information and should always be verified with documentation. -- kosboot (talk) 05:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed -- Rachmaninoff is a good example, with his stone saying he was born on April 2, but reference sources saying April 1. For the editor using sources Wikipedia does not consider reliable -- please read the guideline I have linked. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 05:22, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Nancy Storace Portrait By Pietro Bettelini 2.jpg to appear as POTD[edit]

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Nancy Storace (1765–1817) was an English operatic soprano. Born in London, this child prodigy first performed in public at age eight before moving to Italy in 1778, where she soon embarked on a highly successful career. In 1783 Emperor Joseph II brought her to Vienna, where she starred in his new Italian opera company, appearing in works by Mozart and other composers. During a performance in 1785, her voice failed, and it never fully recovered. However, she was able to continue her career both in Vienna and later London, retiring by 1808. Several roles were written for her, including Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and she helped her brother Stephen's operas find success.Engraving: Pietro Bettelini; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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