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- ↑ "Religious fears force off opera", BBC News. Retrieved September 26, 2006.
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- ↑ Mark Landler (28 September 2006). "At German Conference on Muslim Relations, One Vote Is Unanimous: Mozart Must Go On". The New York Times . Retrieved 11 August 2020.
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