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- ↑ Caligula, work details, Boosey & Hawkes
- ↑ Margaret Ross Griffel, Operas in German: A Dictionary ISBN 978-1-4422-4797-0 2018, p. 74: "Caligula, opera in four acts by Detlev Glanert; libretto (Ger) by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after Albert Camus. ... Oper Frankfurt, with Ashley Holland (Caligula), Michaela Schuster (Caesonia), Martin Wölfel (Helicon), and Gregory Frank (Cherea)"
- ↑ Ernst Christian Schütt. Chronik Jahrgangsband 2007 ISBN 978-3577141079 2008. p. 153: "In seiner Oper Caligula beleuchtet Detlev Glanert den Wandel des römischen Kaisers vom vorbildlichen Herrscher zum grausamen Tyrannen."
- ↑ Opernwelt , vol. 48, issues 1–6, p. 41, 2007
- ↑ Opernwelt, vol. 47, issues 7–12, p. 11
- ↑ Review by Andrew Clements, The Guardian , 30 April 2010: "A full German libretto is included in the booklet, but there's no English version."