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- ↑ Gruber, Paul, ed. (2003). The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03444-5.
- 1 2 3 4 Recording details for Fidelio on Operadis online. Retrieved 28 March 2014
- ↑ “Salzburg Festival Rarities Vol. I: Fidelio (Act I)". discogs.com site. Retrieved 24 August 2018
- ↑ Hugo Shirley, Review of 2020 Royal Opera video, Gramophone , June 2022, p. 84.