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- Carini, Jaime (December 2020). "Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 by Mary Ann Smart (review)". Notes. 77 (2): 291–294. doi:10.1353/not.2020.0105. S2CID 227256882.
- Grab, Alexander (December 2019). "Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 By Mary Ann Smart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+236. $60.00". The Journal of Modern History. 91 (4): 953–955. doi:10.1086/705862. S2CID 210476899.
- Rutherford, Susan (2020). "Waiting for Verdi: opera and political opinion in nineteenth-century Italy, 1815–1848 by Mary Ann Smart, Oakland, University of California Press, 2018, xiv + 236 pp., $60.00 (hard cover), ISBN: 9780520276253". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 25 (3): 347–359. doi:10.1080/1354571X.2020.1754667. S2CID 221055663.
- Madigan, Patrick (May 2020). "Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848. By Smart, Mary Ann. Pp. xiv, 236, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, $49.95". The Heythrop Journal. 61 (3): 566–567. doi:10.1111/heyj.13540. S2CID 219022457.
- Maes, Francis (2019). "Mary Ann Smart, Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848". European History Quarterly. 49 (3): 533–534. doi:10.1177/0265691419860743v. S2CID 199151672.
- ↑ Chapin, Keith (February 2016). "The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music. By Wye Jamison Allanbrook . Ed. by Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin . pp. xv + 234 . University of California Press , Oakland , 2014 . £41.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27407-5 ". Music and Letters. 97 (1): 165–167. doi:10.1093/ml/gcv111. Republished at Project MUSE
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- Cruz, Gabriela (10 September 2007). "How Musical Is Gesture? Review of Mary Ann Smart. 2004. Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press". Current Musicology. 84. doi:10.7916/cm.v0i84.5102. Alternate URL
- Hibberd, Sarah (May 2007). "Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. By Mary Ann Smart . pp. ix + 247 . ( University of California Press , Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London , 2004 , £45. ISBN 0- 520-23995-4.)". Music and Letters. 88 (2): 370–374. doi:10.1093/ml/gcl148.
- Campana, Alessandra (2005). "Review of 'Mimomania. Music and Gesture in 19th-Century Opera' by Mary Ann Smart". Verdi Forum. 32: 79–82.
- Gallo, Denise P. (June 2008). "Mary Ann Smart, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). 245 pp. $50". Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 5 (1): 105–109. doi:10.1017/S1479409800002639. S2CID 190727053.
- Einhorn, Eric (June 2005). "Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera". Opera Journal. 38 (2): 31–33.
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