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- ↑ "Brief Chronicles. Hungary". Opera , vol. 18, no. 8, p. 684.
- ↑ Shmith, Michael (18 September 2016). "Our Man in Havana Review: swaying and singing with élan". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 4 June 2017.
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- ↑ Jacobs, Arthur. "London Opera Diary – Our Man in Havana. Sadler's Wells". Opera , August 1963, pp. 564-567.
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