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- ↑ Tommasini, Anthony (September 20, 2017). "5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ Dobrin, Peter. "O17 hits the Barnes with a hallucinatory fairy tale". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ "Hertzberg Wins New Opera Honor For Wake World". classicalvoiceamerica.org. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ Tommasini, Anthony (December 17, 2020). "The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 21, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
