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- ↑ "Edna Garabedian Returns For Messiah", The Fresno Bee , 21 December 1990
- ↑ "Home At Last Edna Garabedian's Fresno Roots Are Deep, Emotionally And Musically", The Fresno Bee, 25 January 1998
- ↑ List of winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
- ↑ "Edna Garabedian". Operissimo concertissimo . Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ↑ "Biography of Edna Garabedian at www.calopera.org". Archived from the original on 2010-08-28. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
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