Talk:April Evans

Copyright problem removed
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Notability and referencing
Despite the claims on the subject's personal website and that of her management, from which this article had been copied verbatim (see above), I can find no evidence that she sang with either the English National Opera or the Metropolitan Opera (she is not listed anywhere on the Met's exhaustive database). She appears to have been active mainly in the 1980s and with small companies in New York, e.g. American Opera Repertory Company, Metro Lyric Opera, Bel Canto Opera, After Dinner Opera Company, + 2 roles in concert performances by Opera Orchestra of New York. I can find no evidence of any articles devoted to her and no biographical information apart from Who's Who in Music. There do not appear to be any recordings, and the claim to being a "winner" in the Pavarotti International Voice Competition has no reliable sources. Her 1985 Who's Who in Music entry lists her as a "finalist", and information in it is normally supplied by the artists themselves or their management. This article is a probable candidate for deletion. Voceditenore (talk) 12:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)