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- ↑ Stanley Sadie, "Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur. Tempo (New Ser.), 73, 24-25 (1965).
- ↑ Radio Times Issue 2155, 25 February 1965, p 64
- ↑ Radio Times Issue 2244, 10 November 1966, p 14
- ↑ Allan Kozinn, "A Dark and Stormy Night, With Doings to Match". New York Times, 25 October 2005.
- ↑ Andrew Clark, "Arts & Ideas: The Mines of Sulphur, New York City Opera". Financial Times, 26 October 2005. [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Review by Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 20 October 2008
- ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Mines of Sulphur, 24 February 1965" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ↑ Joe Law, "The Mines of Sulphur. Richard Rodney Bennett". The Opera Quarterly, 21(4), 775-778 (2005).