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:::::Do you think they could be re-arranged so they are less confusing? Ie shouldn't the year be after ''Lucretia'' instead of ''Rape of Lucretia''? -- [[User:Haminoon|<span style="color:green">haminoon</span>]] ([[User talk:Haminoon|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]) 20:27, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::Ah, sorry, I didnt see the issue when the works themselves are old but the production is new and we want to give the date of the new production, not mistakenly imply the date the work was originally created. -- [[User talk:TheRedPenOfDoom|<span style="color:red;;;">TRPoD <small>aka The Red Pen of Doom</small></span>]] 21:56, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
I removed the original mentions of Opera For Change's 2011 African tour of The Magic Flute because the source was irrelevant, but I don't think the tour ever came to fruition and here's why. The source currently provided is an article which is itself a bit of a dodgy reference as it is full of inaccuracies and misspellings, including Benedict Cumberbatch's name in the first line. I believe the article used this very Wikipedia page as its source, because it was updated shortly before Hunter rose to notability to include mentions of Opera For Change's African tour and was likely the prime source for journalists at a time when there was precious little else about Hunter online.
The editor who originally added this information to Wikipedia probably got it from an outdated source, like http://www.location1.org/sophie-hunter/ (written in 2010-11), in which she claimed The Magic Flute as a forthcoming project. But in subsequent playbills, http://www.krannertcenter.com/images/cm/2011511153925496128174106178/69DegreesProgram.pdf (her most recent one; from 2013), the credit has disappeared.
In a comment written by Opera For Change in late 2012 (https://operaforchange.wordpress.com/ ), they state their plan to visit Africa at the end of the year and to produce the tour in 2013-14, but possibly as late as 2014-15. I can find no evidence that the tour ever happened and Opera For Change seems to have shifted their goal to producing a cross-arts festival in Nairobi (http://www.operaforchange.com/#!about/c10fk). You can read more about their pilot project to produce The Magic Flute at http://www.operaforchange.com/#!story/c1t44 , in which they write about visiting Africa in 2012-13 where they "gave concerts, master classes, workshops and auditioned singers and artists and came home with a series of local partners".
As there is no evidence that Opera For Change's production of The Magic Flute ever happened, Hunter's most recent biography omits it, and it seems very likely that articles making the claim were sourced from erroneous Wikipedia edits, I would suggest it be removed from the article. [[User:Avianax|Avianax]] ([[User talk:Avianax|talk]]) 17:43, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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