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- ↑ Recordings (1932 to 2001) on operadis-opera-discographyorguk [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Hepokoski, p. 176
- 1 2 Stuart, Philip. Decca Classical, 1929–2009, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Thomas Beecham", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Fritz Reiner", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Victor de Sabata", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Herbert von Karajan", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Tullio Serafin", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Lorin Maazel", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: James Levine", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Riccardo Muti", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Georg Solti", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
- ↑ "Conductor: Zubin Mehta", Operadis, retrieved 28 May 2015
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- Hepokoski, James (1983). Giuseppe Verdi "Falstaff". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23534-1.
