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Footnotes
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- ↑ Horres, Kurt, Bernhard Kontarsky, Wolfgang Willaschek, and Eckehard Mayer. 1993. Sansibar [programme book]. Munich: Bayerische Staatsoper.
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- ↑ "Premieren der Oper Frankfurt ab September 1945 bis heute" (PDF). Oper-Frankfurt website (in German). Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ↑ Ross, Alexander. 2000. "Raumgreifend: Hölszkys Die Wände in Frankfurt". Crescendo 3, no. 1 (March–April): 15.
- ↑ Clements, Andrew (1992). "Soldaten, Die". In Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera . 4 vols. London: Macmillan Press; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music. ISBN 0-333-73432-7.
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