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[edit] seeking improved intro
Hello, the current introduction begins with the sentence, "French opera is the art of opera in France." Surely there could be a better way of wording that. I'm not sufficiently familiar with French opera to come up with a better intro right now, but I was thinking something along the lines of how French opera has developed somewhat differently from operatic traditions in Italy, Germany, and Russia, if that is indeed the case. I'm not in the right frame of mind to come up with any better wording anyway. If I can, I'll try to think of something. Thanks. --Kyoko 07:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- See WP:LEAD. The introduction has to summarise what follows, which it does here. I cut down the introduction because the page was getting rather long and I'd rather lose sentences from the intro than valuable information in the body of the article. The article itself deals pretty thoroughly with French opera's relationship with Italian (17th century, opera seria, opera buffa, Rossini) and later German opera (i.e. Wagner). Russian opera has little to do with the matter since by the time it really got going, French opera had already existed for almost two centuries. Mussorgsky had some influence on Debussy, and Stravinsky spent some time in France, of course, but I'm not sure an introductory article needs to go into that kind of detail. --Folantin 09:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
