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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

David Bennett (opera director)

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  • ... that David Bennett was hired as general director of the San Diego Opera after his predecessor tried unsuccessfully to shut the opera company down? Source: In March 2015 the San Diego Opera announced his hiring as general director, replacing Ian Campbell, who left in May 2014 after unsuccessfully proposing a controversial shutdown of the opera company.[1]

Moved to mainspace by MelanieN (talk). Self-nominated at 20:26, 15 October 2018 (UTC).

Interesting career, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. The hook is just fine! Suggestions for the article: Can you bring "baritone" to lead and infobox? Some frown when they read "known-for", - you might replace that by "organizations". Just for curiosity: do we know a role or two that he performed as a singer? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:25, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the suggestions. I have added a little more emphasis on his singing. All I could find about his singing career is that he performed in "secondary roles", and the opera companies named are not first-rank companies. Clearly he was never notable as a singer. BTW I'm going to be out of town and pretty much unreachable after the 30th, but that gives us some days yet to work out any additional details. MelanieN (talk) 15:03, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
That's fine, but please add a ref for the companies where he sang. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Done. Sorry to have missed that. MelanieN (talk) 17:35, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! No problem, happens to all of us ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:21, 25 October 2018 (UTC)