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- ↑ Столица issues 35–47, p. 59 1994: "Николай Николаевич Каретников сидит ко мне спиной, но движенья его плеч, изменений в ритме его хрипловатого дыханья, ... когда два главных сочинения Каретникова — опера «Тиль Уленшпигель» и оратория «Мистерия апостола Павла» — писались в стол. ... Александр Мень. Весной 70-го Каретников и драматург Семен Лунгин закончили либретто, каждое слово в котором ..."
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian p. 437, Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans Romaine, Helena Goscilo – 2007 "... of operas written before 1991 still took place overseas; Nikolai Karetnikov's Til Ulenshpigel (Till Eulenspiegel) was ..."
