Recent edits have changed the description of Don Giovanni's treatment of Donna Anna in the first scene from "seduced" to "raped", back to "seduced" (with an unkind edit summary) and then to "raped" again. There's plenty of literature about the character of Donna Anna: whether she was indeed raped or whether she was a willing participant in the clandestine liaison. Neither text nor music of the opera give an unambiguous explanation. On balance, it seems to me that te characterisation of "rape" has a whiff of a modern reading about it and seems somewhat anachronistic. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:13, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I support User:Michael Bednareks reversion of the info box up top for precisely the reason which he stated: "partly undid revision 638979534 by Meister und Margarita (talk): article needs a navigation box for WAM's operas."
With only an info box and no navigation box, we lack a direct link to other operas by this composer. That's why there have been changes on many other composers' articles (e.g. Verdi has an image of Verdi up top and a nav box down below).
Now, as I've expressed before (and have set up for many of the Bellini articles, for example), I am not opposed to info boxes per se, but we can't have one without the other.
Maybe we can prevail on someone to add to the Mozart nav box.....?? All the best for 2015, Viva-Verdi (talk) 23:07, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Well, as far as an info box pic is concerned, either one of the following would work, although I do like the Mario one. Both are on Commons. Viva-Verdi (talk) 20:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)