Talk:Jean Morère

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Name discrepancy

I've not yet seen it, but in reviewing the world premiere of Don Carlos, the Musical World (London) (April 13, 1867, p. 225-6) refers to him as Paul Morère - surely a mistake. Perhaps that could be mentioned if only to disambiguate, as well as a redirect from Paul created. -- kosboot (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Nineteenth century tenor, which is where this article got its start. Apparently the Paul thing was an error. I'll make a redirect. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 20:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

More on the name discrepancy. All French sources say that Morère was born in Couladère, not that he was born as "Couladère". None of them say that "Couladère" was his original surname, and I can find no instances in France of this being used as a surname for anyone. However, "Morère" is a common surname in that region. I suspect the article in the Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (and possibly others) was a misreading of the original French sources. This had always bothered me. Today an IP tried to make a correction. I have formatted and referenced this to a French source and added an explanatory footnote re the discrepancy. It seems the Musical World error of stating that "Paul Morère" created the role of Don Carlos was repeated by Roger Parker in The Grove Book of Operas, p. 150. But this is contrary to all other sources on the opera. I have placed an explanatory note about this discrepancy as well, especially since this article has a re-direct from Paul Morère. Voceditenore (talk) 09:18, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]