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As with the parallel wikipedia articles on the Mahler Symphony No. 4 recordings that feature Frederica von Stade (the Trojan horse tactic of 'Claudio Abbado 1978 recording' and 'Yoel Levi recording' in those article titles aside), I very much regret that I neither saw this article nor saw the initial discussion to delete this article back in 2019, as I certainly would have voted most emphatically to Delete. Like those two Mahler 4 articles, and indeed quite frankly, all the articles by one particular wikipedian about recordings with Frederica von Stade, this article has absolutely no good, sensible, or intellectually sound reason to exist, because nothing is so distinctive, distinguished, or historically noteworthy about this recording of Der Rosenkavalier to justify it having a stand-alone article versus the other studio recordings of this opera. The de Waart recording is not the first complete recording (that was Erich Kleiber), nor the first stereo recording (that was Karajan 1956), nor the first recording with a truly complete text (that was Solti 1969). None of those other recordings of Der Rosenkavalier have separate articles on wikipedia, and for good reason, as wikipedia is not a site that should feature articles on every single classical recording. That is what a site like MusicWeb International is for (for the record, I have no affiliation with MusicWeb International).
This article exists only due to that wikipedian's OTT obsession with Frederica von Stade, which is the exact same reason for the existence of all the other recordings that feature von Stade. (And the description of 'OTT' is not an opinion, but a fact: out of 14,631 edits to date by said wikipedian, 3,157 are edits on the Frederica von Stade article. That is 21.57%.) To reiterate my comment on the Mahler 4 articles, every single article by said wikipedian that focuses on a recording that features Frederica von Stade needs to be removed from wikipedia. The inclusion of the conductor in the titles of those articles is a Trojan horse tactic that attempts to distract readers from the bias of all those articles towards Frederica von Stade.
If that wikipedian were to buy a separate web domain in order to maintain a separate internet 'shrine' to Frederica von Stade at his own expense, that would be perfectly fine. It is not at all perfectly fine, or in way acceptable, to build such an internet 'shrine' to her (or to any classical music artist) on wikipedia with wikipedia absorbing the database and carbon-footprint costs to house those articles. However, it is probably well past time and too late to delete this article, as much as it (and all its kin) should be deleted. DJRafe (talk) 07:25, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
