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- ↑ "Tibor Rudas Presents the Three Sopranos: Cassello, Esperian, Lawrence". Entertainment Weekly. 22 November 1996. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
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- ↑ Douglas Martin (16 September 2014). "Tibor Rudas Dies at 94; Brought the World the Three Tenors". The New York Times .
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