Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balbina Steffenone
Well, it was said, credible or not. JSTOR has an obituary online http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0958-8434(18970201)38%3A648%3C124%3AOBS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N sub only that calls her "an operatic star greatly admired in her time" (that's visible in the Google results for http://www.google.com/search?q=bina.steffenone bina.steffenone). And the http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/21/1/68?ck=nck Opera Quarterly has an article where she is described as "on this tour (Verdi) the brightest of the star sopranos" (in counterpoint to a critic's "extravagant praise"). In a bio of Walt Whitman he is described as hearing "sixteen of the major singers who made their debut in the next eight years" including Steffanone (note that the "a" spelling returns about the same number of results wherever). There is a mini-bio in a footnote in http://books.google.com/books?id=GgwbQC2KVzMC&pg=PA63&dq=Balbina+Steffanone&ei=BIHSRp3WBJPWoQKfv8HQBw&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=h7ccrhmIw6vV08gd8XDpsO5fMh0 The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer, noting her "great success" (touring the whole of the Americas) and her "big expressive voice". (Also search under just "Bina".) Maybe not universally regarded as ''one of the greatest'' but certainly |notable
— User:Dhartung, 07:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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