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- ↑ Wakin, Daniel J. "Alfredo Silipigni, 74, Who Founded An Opera Company ", The New York Times , March 29, 2006. Accessed September 2, 2008. "Alfredo Silipigni, a conductor and specialist in lesser-known Italian operas who founded the New Jersey State Opera and ran it for four decades, died on Saturday in Livingston, N.J. He was 74 and lived in West Orange, N.J."
- ↑ http://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-shore/opera-by-the-ocean/
- ↑ http://www.northjersey.com/community/138194314_A_2nd_act_in_Clifton.html?c=y&page=1
