Ionian Islands Culture, su e-ionia.gr, 21 luglio 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 21 luglio 2011).
«In 1867 in San Giacomo theatre in Corfu premiers the first opera of Xyndas with a social critique topic entitled “Parliament Candidate” which was the first melodrama ever written by a Greek composer on a totally Greek libretto (of Ioannis Rinopoulos).»