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- ↑ Bavarian State Opera, Biography: Giulio Chazalettes, Accessed 28 August 2009
- ↑ Henahan, Donal, Massenet's Infrequently Performed 'Cherubin'. New York Times , 4 August 1989. Accessed 28 August 2009