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- ↑ Solveig Bøe, Hege Charlotte Faber, Brit Strandhagen. Raw: Architectural Engagements with Nature, Ashgate Publishing, 2014 ISBN 1317071379 OCLC 889675719: "Rautavaara's opera Rasputin from 2003 focuses on the enigmatic monk of the same name."
- ↑ Rasputin 19.9.2003. Encore. (2003). https://encore.opera.fi/fi/performance/32993
- ↑ Opera , vol. 57, issue 2, 2006, p. 234: "Ondine has been busy setting down the music of Einojuhani Rautavaara on CD and DVD for some years, and with his opera Rasputin it has given us not only another work by Finland's most renowned living composer but also a ..."
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