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- ↑ David Mermelstein, "CD Player As Time Machine: Voices Echo Across Decades", New York Times, July 19, 1998
- ↑ Steane, John Barry (1996). 'Historic vocal — Lucrezia Bori Opera and Operetta Arias, Volumes 1 and 2'. Gramophone, November 1996, p. 54. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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