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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 10 entries checked · 6 flagged · 11 issues confirmed · 6 corrected · 5 still open
Farinelli — Farinelli's first known performance in Vienna was in 1731 is incorrect; his first documented performance in Vienna was in 1730, when he sang in Johann Joseph Fux's 'Costanza e Fortezza'.
Feodor Chaliapin — Chaliapin's Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1907, but his return was for the 1921–22 season, and he sang there for three seasons (1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24), not four seasons as listed (1921–22, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26). He did not perform at the Met in the
Franco Corelli — Corelli's Rome Opera debut was in 1954, not 1953
Franco Corelli — Corelli did not perform in English; he sang primarily in Italian and French, and Loretta di Lelio served as his translator for English
Giovanni Battista Rubini — Rubini began as a violinist at age twelve at the Teatro della Società in Bergamo, not the Teatro Riccardi
Giovanni Battista Rubini — The phrasing that Rubini spent ten years in Naples between 1815 and 1825 implies continuous residence, which is inaccurate as he performed elsewhere during that period
Anna Netrebko — Netrebko's American debut was not in autumn 1995 as Lyudmila at the San Francisco Opera; it was in 2002.
Cecilia Bartoli — Bartoli's professional opera debut was in 1987 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Rossini's 'Il barbiere di Siviglia', not at the Arena di Verona.
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