Talk:Le Juif polonais

What this article is about[edit]

I have rephrased the lead. This particular article is meant to be about the opera, not the play, and the lead reflects that. When it's expanded it will look something like this: Die Soldaten (also based on a pre-existing play).

If there is no existing article about the play then one should be started, e.g, Le Juif polonais (play). In the meantime, some brief material about the play can be incorporated into this article, although it should be only material that is relevant to the opera. Film adaptations, made directly from the play are relevant to an article about the play itself, but not to one about the opera. The normal practice for naming articles about works of the same name is to disambiguate via a parenthesis extension to the title. Normally, the first Wikipedia article written uses the name on its own rather than basing it on chronological order of works bearing that name. If there are any objections to the practice in this case, we could consider moving this article about Erlanger's opera to Le Juif polonais (opera). But it is neither usual practice nor desirable to make one article about two entirely different works. Voceditenore (talk) 09:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that they are "entirely different" as one is an adaptation of the other. I.e. it is not a case of two different works co-incidently having the same name. However I will not argue the point...but just say that if what you say is true then logically the stuff about Irving and "The Bells" should be deleted, as that relates to the play rather than the opera.Colin4C (talk) 09:51, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

polonais[edit]

I don't understand the rationale of moving this article in 2011 from Le Juif polonais to Le Juif Polonais. The French spell it with a lower case "p" (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b531873138/f1) and so should we. I suggest to launch a WP:RM to move it back where it came from. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:18, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I moved it for you, French use capital letters differently to English.Polyamorph (talk) 10:26, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Le Juif polonais (The Polish Jew) is an opera in three acts by Camille Erlanger composed to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. This poster, which advertised the opera's 1900 premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, depicts the innkeeper Mathias, on the occasion of his daughter's wedding, remembering the Jew he had murdered fifteen years earlier. In the third act, he dreams that he is being tried for the murder, he confesses to the attack and admits to the disposal of the body, and dies of a heart attack.

Poster credit: Henri C. R. Presseq; restored by Adam Cuerden

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