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  • English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 by Walkling, Andrew R.
    Andrew R. Walkling

    English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706

    English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century....
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  • Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama

    'Wagner's art refuses to stand still, declines to play by the rules and will not observe any of the social graces'What is it that makes Wagner's art so endlessly powerful? So influential, seductive and repellent? So simultaneously creative and destructive? And why does it...
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  • Famous Italian Opera Arias: A Dual-Language Book by Bleiler, Ellen H.
    Opera and Choral Scores

    Famous Italian Opera Arias: A Dual-Language Book a Dual-Language Book

    With this handy dual-language volume, students of Italian can improve their knowledge of the language while enjoying the passion and poetry of some of the most famous arias ever written. Included are 141 arias from 29 operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, and...
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  • Elektra in Full Score by Strauss, Richard
    Richard Strauss

    Elektra in Full Score

    Composed in 1906-1908 to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elektra scandalized audiences of the day with its horrific retelling of the Greek story and its startling level of dissonance. Today, with the shock of the new worn off and the once-fearful dissonance now...
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  • Don Giovanni by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni

    This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni, both for the original version performed in Prague (1787) and the...
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  • Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet by Polzonetti, Pierpaolo
    Pierpaolo Polzonetti

    Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet

    Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, opera scholar Pierpaolo Polzonetti explores how convivial culture shaped the birth of opera and opera-going rituals until...
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  • Don Carlos in Full Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Don Carlos in Full Score

    Based on the play by Schiller about tragic love and intrigue at the court of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos is among the most complex and challenging of Verdi's works. The composer revised the opera twice in the 20 years following its 1867...
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  • Falstaff in Full Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Falstaff in Full Score

    The plays of Shakespeare inspired Verdi's deepest resources. Macbeth (1847) was one of the composer's earliest operatic-dramatic triumphs and Otello (1887) was among his latest. At the end of his life Verdi astonished a public accustomed to his tragic fervor with Falstaff, a gem...
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  • Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Gossett, Philip
    Philip Gossett

    Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with...
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  • Don Giovanni's Reasons: Thoughts on a Masterpiece by Tessing Schneider, Magnus
    Felicity Baker

    Don Giovanni's Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece

    A collection of seven chapters on Lorenzo Da Ponte's Memorie and his librettos L'arbore di Diana (for Vicente Mart? y Soler) and Don Giovanni (for Mozart), the texts are studied as radical works of the Late Enlightenment inspired by Rousseau's socio-political thinking. Author: Felicity...
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  • Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors by Seghers, Rene
    Rene Seghers

    Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors

    His exceptional good looks made him a matinee idol, and Franco Corelli - the Prince of Tenors - was dubbed "Mr. Soldout" for 20 consecutive years. In 1958, just seven years after beginning his career, he was already the highest-paid tenor in Italy. Following...
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  • Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family by Farkas, Andrew
    Andrew Farkas

    Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family

    Drawing on the personal recollections of the Caruso brothers, archival material preserved by the family, and extensive research, this book is a rare tribute to to the man and his vocal legacy. This abridged edition includes the full original text covering Caruso's life and...
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  • Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera by Liu, April
    April Liu

    Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera

    For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure...
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  • Ernani: A tragic opera in four acts by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Ernani: A tragic opera in four acts

    Ernani - A tragic opera in four acts is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....
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  • Don Carlos: Libretto by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Don Carlos: Libretto

    Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793570131ISBN-13: 9780793570133Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 10.30h x 6.50w x 0.60d
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  • First Intermissions: Commentaries from the Met by Lee, M. Owen
    M. Owen Lee

    First Intermissions: Commentaries from the Met

    For well over twenty years, M. Owen Lee has been offering intermission talks during the Saturday afternoon Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which now reach countries on six continents. In this book, Father Lee covers various operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini and Richard Strauss,...
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  • Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris by Jerold, Beverly
    Beverly Jerold

    Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris

    The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Gluck's works...
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  • Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera by Varnay, Astrid
    Astrid Varnay

    Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera

    For Astrid Varnay, opera was the family business. The daughter of coloratura soprano M ria J vor and dramatic tenor Alexander V rnay, she literally grew up backstage at the opera. Vocally and musically trained by her mother and mentor (and later husband) Hermann...
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  • Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner's Rebellious Granddaughter by Rieger, Eva
    Eva Rieger

    Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner's Rebellious Granddaughter

    The first-ever biography of Richard Wagner's artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler's Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles. She was not the 'black sheep' of her family, as often claimed, but a heroic rebel. Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991), Richard Wagner's independent-minded...
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  • Early 20th Century Opera Singers: Their Voices and Recordings from 1900-1949 by Limansky, Nicholas E.
    Nicholas E. Limansky

    Early 20th Century Opera Singers: Their Voices and Recordings from 1900-1949

    Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits...
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  • French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context by Resick, Georgine
    Georgine Resick

    French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context

    French Vocal Literature introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on songs for solo voice or small vocal ensemble with piano or organ accompaniment suitable for recital, concert,...
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  • Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion by Schroeder, David
    David Schroeder

    Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion

    In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer.Author: David SchroederISBN-10: 1442232994ISBN-13: 9781442232990Publisher: Rowman...
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  • Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner by Medlyn, Margaret
    Margaret Medlyn

    Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner

    Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious. This book illustrates how putting together a voice, embodying a sound,...
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  • French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination by Hibberd, Sarah
    Sarah Hibberd

    French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination

    During the July Monarchy, French grand operas, with their plots drawn from historical events, tended to be received as metaphors for current political themes. Previous studies have usually underestimated the role of music and the visual dimensions in articulating an alternative message to that...
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  • Donizetti and His Operas by Ashbrook, William
    William Ashbrook

    Donizetti and His Operas

    This new imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles that would normally appear only in hardback editions for specialists, but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in...
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  • Elijah in Full Score by Mendelssohn, Felix
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah in Full Score

    One of the last works of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), the oratorio Elijah was first performed at England's Birmingham Festival in August 1846. Elated by the audience's response, Mendelssohn wrote jubilantly to his brother: "Not less than four choruses and four airs were...
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  • George Gershwin: A New Biography by Hyland, William G.
    William G. Hyland

    George Gershwin: A New Biography

    Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness...
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  • First Nights at the Opera by Kelly, Thomas Forrest
    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    First Nights at the Opera

    A behind-the-scenes look at the premieres of five extraordinary operas What was it like at the opening night of Mozart's Don Giovanni or Wagner's Das Rheingold? This glittering introduction to the world of opera takes us behind the scenes during premiere performances of five...
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  • From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging by Baker, Evan
    Evan Baker

    From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

    Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life--by the stagehands who shift scenery, the...
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  • Cyrano: An Opera in Four Acts by Damrosch, Walter
    Walter Damrosch

    Cyrano: An Opera in Four Acts

    This classic French tale of love and honor comes to life in Walter Damrosch's celebrated opera. With its soaring melodies and dramatic lyrics, Cyrano is a masterpiece of the operatic genre, capturing the passion and pathos of 17th century France in vivid detail. From...
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  • Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier by Reynolds, Michael
    Michael Reynolds

    Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier

    A full account of the making, during 1909-10, of Der Rosenkavalier with emphasis on its derivation from a French op駻ette of 1907, L'Ingenu libertin. L'Ingenu libertin was seen in Paris by Count Harry Kessler and formed the basis of the opera then to be...
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  • Die Zauberflöte - Die beliebtesten Opern by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberfle - Die beliebtesten Opern

    Die Zauberfl te ist eine Oper in zwei Aufz gen, die 1791 im Freihaustheater in Wien uraufgef hrt wurde. Das Libretto stammt von Emanuel Schikaneder, die Musik komponierte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Zur Handlung: Der junge Prinz Tamino wird von der K nigin der Nacht...
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  • Der Freischütz in Full Score by Weber, Carl Maria Von
    Carl Maria Von Weber

    Der Freisch?z in Full Score

    First performed in Berlin in 1821, Der Freisch?z is recognized as the wellspring of German Romantic opera. It was immensely influential in subject matter, atmosphere, orchestration, and other aspects on all later German operatic writing, and it is still quite popular.The composition of Der...
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  • Composing History: National Identities and the English Masque Revival, 1860-1920 by Heckert, Deborah
    Deborah Heckert

    Composing History: National Identities and the English Masque Revival, 1860-1920

    A study of the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English identity, musical and otherwise, during the Victorian and Edwardian periods This study explores the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English...
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  • Choral Works with Orchestral Accompaniment by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Choral Works with Orchestral Accompaniment

    Reprinted from authoritative Breitkopf and H舐tel sources, this collection features a variety of Brahms's most cherished choral works with orchestral accompaniment. Selections include: - Rhapsodie f? eine Altstimme, M舅nerchor und Orchester, Op. 53 (Rhapsody for an Alto, Men's Choir, and Orchestra)- Schicksalslied von Friedrich...
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  • Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach by Kitcher, Philip
    Philip Kitcher

    Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach

    Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical...
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  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition by Hobson, Marian
    Marian Hobson

    Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of...
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  • David Matthews: Essays, Tributes and Criticism by Hyde, Thomas
    Thomas Hyde

    David Matthews: Essays, Tributes and Criticism

    Essays and memoirs by and about one of Britain's leading symphonists. A lively collection by contributions from Roger Scruton, Judith Weir, John McCabe, Arnold Whittall, Hugh Wood and many others. 2013 saw the seventieth birthday of David Matthews, the British composer who has established...
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  • Catalogue Raisonne as Memoir: A Composer's Life by Argento, Dominick
    Dominick Argento

    Catalogue Raisonne as Memoir: A Composer's Life

    An arresting and emotional tour of the life and work of the 2004 Grammy-winning composer The celebrated American composer Dominick Argento is known for the care with which he selects the subjects for his works, be they intended for opera house, concert auditorium, recital...
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  • Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance, Interpretation by Rosand, Ellen
    Ellen Rosand

    Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance, Interpretation

    Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive dialogue between...
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  • Delavar-e-Sahand: An Opera in Two Acts by Pejman, Ahmad
    Ahmad Pejman

    Delavar-e-Sahand: An Opera in Two Acts

    The Ultimate Epic Opera/ An Opera in Two Acts.Full Music Sheets By Composer Ahmad Pejman.Delavar and Sahand Opera is based on the life of 8th century Iranian freedom fighter, Babak Khorramdin, who is a symbol of resistance against the Arab occupiers in Iran. Born...
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  • Curating Opera: Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art by Mould, Stephen
    Stephen Mould

    Curating Opera: Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art

    Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and...
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  • Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Libretto by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Libretto

    Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793583594ISBN-13: 9780793583591Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.30h x 6.50w x 0.40d
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  • Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage by Mabary, Judith
    Judith A. Mabary

    Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage

    The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are...
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  • Das Rheingold: Libretto by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Das Rheingold: Libretto

    Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793556104ISBN-13: 9780793556106Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d
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  • Debussy in Proportion: A Musical Analysis by Howat, Roy
    Roy Howat

    Debussy in Proportion: A Musical Analysis

    This is the first paperback edition of Roy Howat's stimulating and provocative study of Debussy's unorthodox use of musical form. Throught detailed analyses of the piano pieces Reflets dans l'eau and L'isle joyeuse and the symphonic poem La mer, Dr Howat shows how the...
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  • Cavalleria Rusticana in Full Score by Mascagni, Pietro
    Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria Rusticana in Full Score

    Mascagni's first produced opera (1890), and ultimately his most successful, Cavalleria Rusticana is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and richly melodic score set a fashion for so-called verismo opera that...
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  • Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg in Full Score by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger Von N?nberg in Full Score

    This beloved operatic work combines profound emotion and great comedy to tell the tale of a young knight and his struggle to become a Mastersinger. Wagner's only comedy, for which he wrote both the words and the music, offers an extraordinarily adept coupling of...
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  • Cosi Fan Tutte in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi Fan Tutte in Full Score

    Translated from the Italian, Cosi fan tutte means "That's how all women act"; the libretto, the last of three Lorenzo da Ponte wrote for Mozart, concerns the behavior of women, particularly the behavior of young women in the throes of romantic love. Are they...
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  • Coloratura Arias for Soprano: G. Schirmer Opera Anthology by Larsen, Robert L.
    Robert L. Larsen

    Coloratura Arias for Soprano: G. Schirmer Opera Anthology

    (Vocal Collection). An excellent volume of coloratura arias has been added to the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series. With 30 arias in English, Italian, German, French and Russian, this is the largest collection of coloratura operatic excerpts ever published. Contents: ALCINA: Tornami a vagheggiar...
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