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- ↑ Meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music ( "Definition from the Everything 2 website". Everything2.com. 6 January 2002. Retrieved 20 March 2010.)
- ↑ Charles H. Parsons, Opera Composers and Their Works: E-K (1986), p. 886
- ↑ Parker, John, ed. (1925). Who's Who in the Theatre (fifth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. p. 1196. OCLC 10013159.
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