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Notes
- 1 2 Forbes
- ↑ Forbes. In fact, according to Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Otello, 8 September 1977" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian)., Raffanti had already performed in 1977 the minor role of Roderigo in Verdi's Otello at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.
- ↑ Archives.metoperafamily.org.
- ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Parisina, 18 May 1990" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "La sonnambula, 20 March 1979" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
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- Elizabeth Forbes, Raffanti, Dano, in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , Grove (Oxford University Press), New York, 1997, III, p. 1215, ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2
