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- ↑ (p. 266), Ma voix et moi (...und ich wäre so gern Primadonna gewesen), Christa Ludwig, Éditions Les Belles Lettres/Archimbaud, 1996.
- ↑ Adrienne Lecouvreur, Gérard Mannoni, Le Quotidien de Paris, 23 December 1993; Ticket gagnant, Alain Lompech, Le Monde, 22 December 1993; Adrienne Lecouvreur: for the voices, Hervé Pennven, Présent, 25 December 1993.
- ↑ Pour Mirella, Pierre Petit, Le Figaro, 22 December 1993 ; Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Baryton admirable, dir. François Hauter, Le Figaro, 30 December 1993.
- ↑ Le Barbier de Séville at the Opéra de Nice, Christian Jarniat, La Tribune de Nice, 6 March 2009. See also press articles written by Jacques Doucelin in Le Figaro and on concertclassic.com.
