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- ↑ Operas in German: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel, 1990, p. 304: "Hermione, opera in four acts by Max Bruch; libretto by Emil Hopffer after Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale; March 21, 1872, Berlin"
