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- ↑ "Anne-Marie Owens - Mezzo". www.operamusica.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ↑ Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
- ↑ Whetstone, David (3 October 2015). "Opera star Anne-Marie Owens is to make her panto debut in home town of South Shields" . Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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