Template:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim
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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Kihwan Sim
- ... that in 2023, Kihwan Sim from South Korea appeared as Mozart's Figaro at the Oper Frankfurt in the first production with the new GMD, Thomas Guggeis, as a hint at the French Revolution? Source: [1]
- Reviewed: William Carter (composer)
Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self-nominated at 16:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Kihwan Sim; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Date, size, refs, hook, neutrality, QPQ, copyvio spotcheck, all GTG. No problems here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:55, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt and Piotrus: I'm sorry to say that I don't actually understand the last half of this hook, and I still don't really understand after having looked at the article. What does "as a hint at the French Revolution" mean? From the article, it appears that an aria was somewhat reminiscent of the revolution (?) but from the hook it seems that Kihwan's appearance is the hint at the revolution, or perhaps Guggeis's newness as "GMD"? No clue. Is it not possible to have a hook based on his "internationality" (... that the South Korean bass-baritone Kihwan Sim studied in Germany, won prizes in France and Finland, and performed in New York, Copenhagen, London, Budapest, and Moscow?) or something that we mere mortals can grasp? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- ALT0a: ... that in 2023, Kihwan Sim from South Korea appeared as Mozart's Figaro at the Oper Frankfurt in the first production with the new GMD, Thomas Guggeis?
- The part was meant to express that in the production, the role of a lower-class servant opposing (and winning against) his noble boss was stressed as pre-revolutionary, but if that is not understood we better drop it. (The play and the opera based on it were written shortly before the French revolution, and not liked by nobility and thus censorship. Europeans are typically aware of it.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt and Piotrus: I'm sorry to say that I don't actually understand the last half of this hook, and I still don't really understand after having looked at the article. What does "as a hint at the French Revolution" mean? From the article, it appears that an aria was somewhat reminiscent of the revolution (?) but from the hook it seems that Kihwan's appearance is the hint at the revolution, or perhaps Guggeis's newness as "GMD"? No clue. Is it not possible to have a hook based on his "internationality" (... that the South Korean bass-baritone Kihwan Sim studied in Germany, won prizes in France and Finland, and performed in New York, Copenhagen, London, Budapest, and Moscow?) or something that we mere mortals can grasp? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
