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Notes
- 1 2 Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- ↑ ”Aida by Giuseppe Verdi 1912”. operadis-opera-discography.org.uksite. Retrieved 18 August 2018
- ↑ Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.110129-30
- ↑ Source: Naxos Catalogue 8.111240-41
- ↑ Aida (6 March 1976), Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ According to the booklet accompanying the DVD.
Sources
- Gruber, Paul, ed. (2003). The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03444-5.
