2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-05-14
Conductors:
Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble:
La Scala Chorus; La Scala Orchestra Milan
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ODO 1492
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
In modern times, "superstar" status for an opera singer is unusual. Not so in the 19th century, when opera singers were commonly accorded the adulation...continue...
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ODO 6014
14 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
Conductors:
Krauss, Clemens
Ensemble:
Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
A deluxe edition of one of the most beloved complete Opera d’Oro recordings! This new package contains newly translated complete English librettos for all four...continue...
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ODO 1504
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
A survey of hundreds of popular and classical song titles throughout the centuries shows that love is by far the leading theme of vocal music....continue...
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ODO 6016
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
The career of Luciano Pavarotti spanned 45 years, one of the longest careers of any operatic singer. His debut took place in Italy in Puccini'...continue...
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ODO 6013
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
The Neapolitan song is a specific genre of classical vocal music with a distinctive style that, once heard, is never forgotten. It originated officially at...continue...
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ODO 6015
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
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ODO 6017
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-04-09
$7.99
$6.99
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ODO 6018
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-03-12
Conductors:
Gui, Vittorio
Ensemble:
Orchestra & Chorus of the San Carlo Theater
Live performance, Naples, December 29, 1949. Nabucco, the king of Babylon, goes mad after proclaiming himself a god. While he is imprisoned, the slave girl...continue...
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ODO 1491
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-02-12
Conductors:
Reiner, Fritz
Ensemble:
London Symphony
The medieval Irish princess Isolde wants to poison the knight Tristan for wrongs he has done her, but falls in love with him instead when...continue...
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ODO 1490
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-01-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Luisa Miller; Requiem; Il Trovatore; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; I Purtani; Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di La...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
Although famous for his starring roles in the most familiar operas of Verdi and Puccini, Luciano Pavarotti had a wide range of repertoire outside opera....continue...
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ODO 6010

1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-01-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento; L' elisir d'amore, opera; La Favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo; Vincenzo Bellini: ...
Performers:
Caballe, Montserrat; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Freni, Mirella; Janowitz, Gundula; Pavarotti, Luciano; Scotto, Renata
This disc presents Pavarotti in duets with several of the great ladies of opera. Renata Scotto was noted for the beauty of her voice, her...continue...
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ODO 6011

1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-01-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; I Lombardi; La Traviata; Gaetano Donizetti: La Figlia del reggimento; La Favorita; L' Elisir d'amore; Lucia de Lammermoor; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Turandot; Edua...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
This disc contains an overview of some of Pavarotti's most famous and beloved recorded opera arias and songs, opening with a universal favorite, "La donna...continue...
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ODO 6009
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2013-01-08
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura, WoO 133; Vincenzo Bellini: Dolente immagine di figlia mia, for voice & piano; Ariette da Camera; Franz Liszt: Pace non trovo (Sonnetto no 104), song for ...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
With one exception, all the numbers on this recording are from the non-operatic repertoire for which Pavarotti was famous on the recital stage, a venue...continue...
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ODO 6012
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2012-11-13
Conductors:
Kleiber, Erich
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ODO 7088
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2012-10-09
Conductors:
Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble:
RAI Chorus Rome; RAI Orchestra Rome
Classics TodayOzawa can keep it together and produce a thrill-a-minute ... The Rome orchestra plays handsomely, the chorus is gloriously straight jacketed into its individual...continue...
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ODO 7087
4 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2012-09-11
Conductors:
Jochum, Eugen
GramophoneIt is the most vivid, exciting, best-executed reading of the work I have ever heard. Much of the credit goes to Jochum who conducts a...continue...
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ODO 7086
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2012-01-10
Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Performers:
Callas, Maria; Malagu, Stefania; Perotti, Eva
Conductors:
Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble:
La Scala Opera Orchestra
The recent rebirth of interest in the masterpiece of Christoph von Gluck's maturity, Ifigenia in Tauride, has proved that his art can still cast a...continue...
Recording information: Milan (06/01/1957)....continue...
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ODO 7085
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-10-11
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Idomeneo; Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales; La Danza; Vincenzo Bellini: Dolente immagine di figlia mia, for voice & piano; Arietta da...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
A lavish performance by one of the world's greatest tenors! This exclusive DVD+CD set provides an opportunity to see and hear one of the greatest...continue...
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ODO 6007
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-09-13
Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Conductors:
Karajan, Herbert von
Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) was a unique genius who had spotty formal musical training but enormous imagination and creativity. For decades many regarded him...continue...
Recording information: Salzburg (1966)....continue...
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ODO 7084
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-09-13
Luciano Pavarotti performs holiday favorites such as "O Holy Night," "Ave Maria," "Adeste Fidelis," and "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)."...continue...
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ODO 6008
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-07-12
Twenty-two groundbreaking historical performances by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti!...continue...
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ODO 6006
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-06-14
Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Live 1963 performance from La Scala, Milan, in excellent sound....continue...
Recording information: Milan (12/07/1963)....continue...
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ODO 7083
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-05-10
Although not well known in America, Kostas Paskalis (1929-2007) was one of the leading baritones in Europe during the 1960s and '70s. As Paskalis made...continue...
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ODO 7081
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-03-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I lombardi
Performers:
di Stasio, Anna; Grilli, Umberto; Jacopucci, Fernando; Raimondi, Ruggero; Rinaudo, Mario; Scotto, Renata
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
This 1969 live performance from Rome has been issued before and greatly admired as one of the best-ever readings of the opera, but is now...continue...
Recording information: Rome (1969)....continue...
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ODO 7082
3 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-02-08
Live performance, Rome, May 12, 1970. Features original artwork by Rafal Olbinski, re-mastered sound, and 76-page booklet with historic photos. Complete Italian-English libretto newly translated...continue...
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ODO 7080
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-01-11
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) wrote three operas based on the lives of English Queens: Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (1834), and Roberto Devereux (1837). None of...continue...
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ODO 7079
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2011-01-11
Works: Cesare Andrea Bixio: Mamma; La mia canzone al vento; Vincenzo Bellini: Vaga luna, che inargenti, song for voice & piano; Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita "Spanish Serenade"; Vincenzo De Crescenzo: Rondine...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
Twenty-two groundbreaking historical performances by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti, featuring Neapolitan songs by Donizetti, Bellini, Tosti, Bixio, De Curtis, and many more....continue...
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ODO 6005
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-11-09
22 groundbreaking historical performances by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti!...continue...
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ODO 6004
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-10-12
24 groundbreaking historical performances by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti! In addition to Pavarotti's brilliant career on the opera stage, he was also known for his...continue...
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ODO 6003
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-09-14
Works: Georges Bizet: Le Docteur Miracle, operetta in 1 act
Conductors:
Amaducci, Bruno
Not the least miracle of Le docteur Miracle is that is exists at all. The one-act operetta, a first-prizewinning composition from a contest organized by...continue...
Recording information: Paris (03/01/1976)....continue...
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ODO 7077
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-08-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; La fille du régiment; Lucia di Lammermoor; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo; Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Fr...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
Born in Modena, a small town in northern Italy, Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was the son of a baker and amateur tenor. He grew up surrounded...continue...
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ODO 6002
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-08-10
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Performers:
Gobbi, Tito; Panerai, Rolando; Susca, Vito
A brilliant live performance from Salzburg in 1961. Baritone Tito Gobbi, one of the great singing actors of his era, is indelibly vivid as the...continue...
Recording information: Salzburg (08/19/1961)....continue...
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ODO 7076
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2010-03-09
Works: Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne
Performers:
Bacquier, Gabriel; Falzetti, Nino
Conductors:
Maag, Peter
An exceptional "traditional" performance of this spooky and dream-like opera, dramatically and musically effective, with a fine cast and propulsive conducting. The great Hungarian tenor...continue...
Recording information: Buenos Aires (08/03/1970)....continue...
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ODO 7074
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-11-10
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Stiffelio
Conductors:
de Fabritiis, Oliviero
Currently this is not only the only mid-price version of Stiffelio with a libretto - it's the only available recording, period! And a fine one...continue...
Recording information: Naples (01/07/1973)....continue...
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ODO 7075
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-10-13
Works: Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Conductors:
Prêtre, Georges
Including a 56-page booklet with historic photos; a complete French libretto with new, original English translation; and an essay on the performance by Robert Levine,...continue...
Recording information: Rome Opera House, Rome, Italy (01/11/1969)....continue...
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ODO 7073
1 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-09-08
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; I lombardi; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; La Favorita; La figlia del reggiment...
Performers:
Pavarotti, Luciano
Born in Modena, a small town in northern Italy, Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was the son of a baker and amateur tenor. He grew up surrounded...continue...
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ODO 6001

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-09-08
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Performers:
Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Badioli, Carlo; Bruscantini, Sesto; Carbonari, Virgilio; Cossotto, Fiorenza; Forti, Carlo; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Malagu, Stefania
Conductors:
Santini, Gabriele
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
"This performance was recorded live at La Scala on January 20, 1964. Gabriele Santini - who would pass away toward the end of that year...continue...
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ODO 7072

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario, opera
Performers:
Antonini, Giovanni [Bass Vocal]; Carusi, Alfredo; Gencer, Leyla; Grilli, Umberto; Pallini, Rina; Pecile, Mirna; Sebastian, Bruno; Taddei, Giuseppe; Veronese, Augusto; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors:
Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble:
Venice Teatro la Fenice Chorus
When Leyla Gencer died at age 79 in 2008, the obituary in 'The Guardian' (UK) called her "the greatest Turkish opera singer of the 20th...continue...
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ODO 7064

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-05-12
Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aroldo
Performers:
Cecchele, Gianfranco; Gulin, Angeles; Millauro, Carlo; Minetto, Maria; Montefusco, Licinio; Munzi, Marcello; Zanazzo, Alfredo
Conductors:
Rinaldi, Maurizio
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan
Few recordings exist of the sensational artistry of Spanish soprano Angeles Gulin (1939–2002), whose enormous, dark voice was said to have set the crystal chandeliers...continue...
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ODO 7071

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-04-14
Works: Paul Hindemith: Cardillac, opera, Op. 39
Performers:
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Grobe, Donald; Katz, Eberhard; Kirschstein, Leonore; Kohn, Karl Christian; Nett, Willi; Soderstrom, Elisabeth
Conductors:
Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble:
Cologne West German Radio Chorus
The only recording ever made of this 20th-century masterpiece features the towering artistry of Fischer-Dieskau in the title role of a Renaissance goldsmith who murders...continue...
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ODO 7067

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Giovanni Pacini: Saffo
Performers:
Bianco, Tito Del; Gencer, Leyla; Guggia, Mario; Maniachi, Vittoria; Mattiucci, Franca; Piacente, Maurizio; Quilico, Louis
Conductors:
Capuana, Franco
Ensemble:
Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra
"The cast of this 1967 performance is excellent, led energetically by Franco Capuana... But of course the center of the revival, and its raison d'etre,...continue...
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ODO 7068
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix
Performers:
Badioli, Carlo; Corsi, Rina; Modesti, Giuseppe; Raimondi, Gianni; Taddei, Giuseppe; Vocals], Margherita Carosio [Soprano
Conductors:
Simonetto, Alfredo
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
Donizetti had written about sixty operas already when he produced 'Linda di Chamounix', the last and best of his works in the semiseria style. It...continue...
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ODO 1489

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2009-02-10
Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin
Performers:
Avdeyeva, Larissa; Belov, Eugene; Lemeshev, Sergei; Mikhailov, Igor; Pankov, Georgy; Petrov, Ivan; Petrova, Valentina; Verbitskaya, Yevgenia; Vishnevskaya, Galina
Conductors:
Sokolov, Andrei; Khaikin, Boris
Ensemble:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus
"This recording made by Melodiya in 1955 captures a remarkable performance of Eugene Onegin with performers from the Bolshoi Opera during one of its golden...continue...
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ODO 7066

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-11-11
Works: Gioachino Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Performers:
Corradi, Giampaolo; Garaventa, Ottavio; Ghiaurov, Nicolai; Gusmeroli, Giovanni; Jacopucci, Fernando; Lane, Gloria; Petri, Mario; Ventriglia, Franco; Verrett, Shirley [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Zylis-Gar...
Conductors:
Sawallisch, Wolfgang
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
This is a fine Rossini opera, once very famous especially for the noble "Prayer of Moses," but was neglected in the 20th century along with...continue...
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ODO 7063

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata, opera
Performers:
Baratti, Giuseppe; Caballe, Montserrat; Cappuccilli, Piero; Labo, Flaviano; Rafanelli, Flora; Trama, Ugo
Conductors:
Capuana, Franco
Ensemble:
Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra
This is a 1967 live recording from Italy of this early Bellini opera, starring the immortal Montserrat Caballe in the heyday of her magnificent voice....continue...
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ODO 7061

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Performers:
Alunno, Giandomenico; Binci, Mario; Carlin, Mino; Castellano, Elio; Cavalieri, Anna de; Cecchele, Gianfranco; Frascati, Tommaso; Marimpietri, Lidia; Valdengo, Giuseppe
Conductors:
Scaglia, Ferruccio
Ensemble:
Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Rome
There can never be enough recordings of this beloved opera, and this rare one from Radio Italy in 1965 highlights not only the fine tenor...continue...
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ODO 1485
2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Igor Stravinsky: Rake's Progress
Performers:
Arie, Raffaele; Cuenod, Hugues; Kraus, Otakar; Rounseville, Robert; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Tangemann, Nell; Tourel, Jennie
Conductors:
Stravinsky, Igor
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
This is a historical recording of the opera's world premiere in 1951, conducted by Stravinsky himself....continue...
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ODO 1488

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-10-14
Works: Gioachino Rossini: L'assedio di Corinto
Performers:
Bonisolli, Franco; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Foiani, Giovanni; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Paoli, Milna; Sills, Beverly [Soprano Vocals]; Vocals], Justino Diaz [Bass Baritone; Washingt...
Conductors:
Schippers, Thomas
Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus
Live performance from La Scala in 1969 of this Rossini rarity, with much the same cast as the studio recording now out of print and...continue...
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ODO 7065

2 CD / Opera D'Oro /
2008-09-09
Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Performers:
Borrelli, Annamaria; Cadoni, Fernanda; Carleo, Mario; Caruso, Mariano; Cioffi, Mario; Cioni, Renato; Giannini, Aldo; Olivero, Magda; Zanasi, Mario
Conductors:
Rescigno, Nicola
"Although the term 'legendary' is all too frequently coined, its usage is both appropriate and justified when describing Magda Olivero. She was an unorthodox soprano...continue...
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ODO 1484
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