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Notes
- ↑ About Us on the company's website Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 Shaun Walker (1 October 2015). "Gotham Chamber Opera Announces That It Will Close". The New York Times . Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- 1 2 Cooper, Michael (March 10, 2016). "Beer Bottles, Not Opera Glasses". The New York Times . p. C6.
- ↑ Les larmes du couteau on the company's website
- ↑ Production details and photographs for Hlas lesa on the company's website
- ↑ Vivian Schweitzer, "From Wily House Cat to Lord of the Manor", The New York Times , October 3, 2010
- ↑ More information from the company's website
- ↑ Production details and photos from El gato con botas on the company's website
Sources
- Michael Cooper, "Rare Arias on a Lean Budget: Gotham Chamber Opera Has Rare Works and Many Venues", The New York Times, 24 December 2013
- Anthony Tommasini, "An Emperor in Drag and Other Decadencies: Cavalli's Eliogabalo, by Gotham Chamber Opera, at the Box", The New York Times, 18 March 2013.
