Template:Did you know nominations/Roland Böer

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:38, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Roland Böer

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Roland Böer conducting in 2017

... that Roland Böer (pictured), who made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, was the artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano? Source: [1]

ALT1: ... that Roland Böer (pictured) was given honorary citizenship of Montepulciano, Italy, for his work as artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte there?
Reviewed: ~~to come~~

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk) and Grimes2 (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 23:01, 27 November 2021 (UTC).

– New enough (created on November 20, 2021) and long enough (2,757 characters). Hook formatted fine, interesting, and neutral. Article appropriately cited, neutral, and looks good! Earwig's copyvio detector detects 2.9% similarity (violation unlikely). Image licenced as own work of a user, AGF on that and German sources. Just waiting for a QPQ. Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 12:22, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the review! I reviewed now Template:Did you know nominations/A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- – Most welcome! Approving this nomination. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 13:56, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
  - Gerda and Kavyansh, y'all are just killing me here a little—is there no way we could highlight that he was given honorary citizenship of Montepulciano for his work? La Scala is probably super significant in a way I'm missing, yeah? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she?) 10:04, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
    La Scala - a nicely short name - is (as our article says) "regarded as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres globally". For many, it's number one, and for Italian opera, it certainly is, and Italian opera being the number one opera by tradition, it highly likely is. The Metropolitan Opera in NYC is the other, No. 2 or 1, depending on perspective. Montepulciano is for insiders. We searched for the theatre in vain, because it's in a row of houses, undistinguished. But inside: intimate baroque beauty. I saw Dennis Russell Davies conducting (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas) from the harpsichord, and Henze, the founder sat on a balcony across, - lovely memories. I prefer the first hook for a broader view, and for sentimental reasons: two great singers who died were in the cast, Maria Radner and Aga Mikolaj (and the latter's article written by LouisAlain as I found out only when she died, so double sentimental). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 6 December 2021 (UTC)