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"The Blu-ray Experience" includes opera and ballet highlights from the Opus Arte catalogue, and gives everyone the opportunity to experience the stunning quality of High Definition picture and sound, at an extremely competitive price. Including world-class artists such as Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura, Simon Keenlyside and Agnes Letestu, this 60-minute introduction to the world of Blu-ray is a must-have purchase this autumn. Blu-ray offers an outstanding audio and visual experience, with up to six times the resolution of standard definition DVD, and up to 7.1 channels of High Definition surround sound. Note: This Blu-ray Disc (BD) is not compatible with standard DVD players PICTURE FORMAT: 1080i
LENGTH: 50 Mins
SOUND: PCM STEREO / PCM SURROUND / DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO SURROUND / DOLBY TRUEHD SURROUND
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| |  | The Complete Operas: Highlights
Arias from Aida, La Traviata, Nabucco and many more!
C Major is proud to present a specially priced highlights DVD and Blu-ray from the Tutto Verdi series, featuring arias from all 26 operas. Two operas in the series, Un giorno di regno and Alzira, will be released for the first time on DVD. 15 operas will be released for the first time on Blu-ray: Luisa Miller, Il Corsaro, Giovanna d´Arco, I lombardi, Nabucco, I due Foscari, Un giorno di regno, I vespri siciliani, La Battaglia di Legnano, Stiffelio, Alzira, I masnadieri, Don Carlos, Ernani, Oberto. The series boasts an impressive cast including Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Fiorenza Cedolins and Norma Fantini. Conductors include Daniele Callegari, Yuri Temirkanov and Gianluigi Gelmetti. Stage directors include Pier Luigi Pizzi, Denis Krief, Daniele Abbado and Pier´Alli. Sound Format: Blu-ray: DTS-HD MA 5.01 PCM 2.0 Running Time: 94 minutes Booklet: English, German, French Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Verdi Opera Selection: Blu-Ray Box Set
Verdi: | La Traviata Live from La Scala, 2007 Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Ramón Vargas (Alfredo), Roberto Frontali (Germont), Natasha Petrinsky (Flora), Tiziana Tramonti (Annina), Enrico Cossutta (Gastone), Luigi Roni (Grenvil), Alessandro Paliaga (Douphol), Piero Terranova (Marchese d'Obigny) Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of The Teatro Alla Scala, Lorin Maazel (conductor) & Liliana Cavani (director) Simon Boccanegra Live Recording from The Teatro Alla Scala, Milan 2010 Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria)), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacopo Fiesco) & Fabio Sartori (Gabriele Adorno) Teatro Alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Federico Tiezzi (stage director) Aida Live Recording from The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Firenze 2011 Hui He (Aida), Marco Berti (Radamès), Luciana D’Intino (Amneris), Ambrogio Maestri (Amonasro), Roberto Tagliavini (Il Re), Giacomo Prestia (Ramfis) Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & Ferzan Ozpetek (stage director) |
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES (La Traviata) + Korean Running Time: over 430 mins Blu-ray Disc: 3 x 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 | 
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| |  | Tutto VerdiThe Complete Operas, Requiem and Documentary
Verdi: | Requiem Dimitra Theodossiou (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Francesco Meli (tenor), Riccardo Zanellato (bass) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov Oberto Mariana Pentcheva (Cuniza), Fabio Sartori (Riccardo), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Oberto), Francesca Sassu (Leonora), Giorgia Bertagni (Imelda) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonello Allemandi Un giorno di regno Guido Loconsolo (Il Cavaliere di Belfiore), Andrea Porta (Il Barone di Kelbar), Anna Caterina Antonacci (La Marchesa del Poggio), Alessandra Marianelli (Giulietta di Kelbar), Ivan Magri (Edoardo di Sanval), Paolo Bordogna (Il Signore la Rocca), Ricardo Mirabelli (Il Conte Ivrea), Seung Hwa Paek (Delmonte/Un servo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Donato Renzetti Nabucco Leo Nucci (Nabucco), Bruno Ribiero (Ismale), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Dimitra Theodossiou (Abigaille), Anna Maria Chiuri (Fenena), Alessandro Spina (Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo), Mauro Buffoli (Abdallo), Cristina Giannelli (Anna) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Michele Marioti I Lombardi alla prima crociata Roberto de Biasio (Arvino), Michele Pertusi (Pagano), Cristina Giannelli (Viclinda), Dimitra Theodossiou (Giselda), Roberto Tagliavini (Pirro), Gregory Bondatti (Un priore), Jansons Valdis (Acciano), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Daniela Pini (Sofia) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniele Callegari Ernani Marco Berti (Ernani), Carlo Guelfi (Don Carlo), Giacomo Prestia (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Susan Neves (Elvira), Nicoletta Zanini (Giovanna), Samuele Simoncini (Don Riccardo), Alessandro Svab (Jago) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonello Allemandi I Due Foscari Leo Nucci (Francesco Foscari), Roberto de Biasio (Jacopo Foscari), Tatiana Serjan (Lucrezia Contarini), Gregory Bonfatti (Barbarigo), Marcella Buffoli (Fante), Alessandro Bianchini (Servo del Doge) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Donato Renzetti Alzira Junko Saito (Alzira), Francesco Facini (Alvaro), Thomas Gazheli (Gusmano), Joshua Lindsay (Ovando), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Zamoro), Yasushi Hirano (Ataliba), Anna Lucia Nardi (Zuma), Joe Tsuchizaki (Otumbo) Orchestra di Bolzano e Trento, Istituto Corale ed Orchestrale di Dobbiaco, Gustav Kuhn Attila Giovanni Battista Parodi (Attila), Sebastian Catana (Ezio), Susanna Branchini (Odabella), Roberto de Biasio (Foresto), Cristiano Cremonini (Aldino), Zyian Atfeh (Leone) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Pierfrancesco Maestrini Macbeth Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Sylvie Valayre (Lady Macbeth), Enrico Iori (Banco), Roberto Iuliano (Macduff), Tiziana Tramonti (Dama), Nicola Pascoli (Malcolm), Enrico Turco (Il Medico), Davide Ronzoni (L'araldo), Riccardo di Stefani (Un Domestico), Noris Borgogelli (Il Sicario) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Bruno Bartoletti I Masnadieri Giacomo Prestia (Massimiliano), Aquiles Machado (Carlo), Artur Rucinski (Francesco), Lucrecia Garcia (Amalia), Walter Omaggio (Arminio), Dario Russo (Moser), Massimiliano Chiarolla (Rolla) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro de San Carlo, Nicola Luisotti Il Corsaro runo Ribeiro (Corrado), Andrea Papi (Giovanni), Irina Lungo (Medora), Luca Salsi (Seid), Silvia dalla Benetta (Gulnara), Gregory Bonfatti (Selimo), Angelo Villari (Un eunoco/Uno schiavo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Carlo Montanaro La Battaglia di Legnano Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Federico Barbarossa), Francesco Musini (Primo Console di Milano), Federico Benetti (Secondo Consolo di Milano), Gabriele Sagona (Il Podesta di Como), Leonardo Lopez Linares (Rolando), Dimitra Theodossiou (Lida), Andrew Richards (Arrigo), Giovanni Guagliardo (Marcovaldo), Sharon Pierfederici (Imelda), Alessandro de Angelis (Un Araldo), Nicola Pascoli (Uno Scudiero di Arrigo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico 'Giuseppe Verdi' di Trieste, Boris Brott Luisa Miller Giorgio Surjan (Il Conte di Walter), Marcelo Alvarez (Rodolfo), Francesca Franci (Federica), Rafal Siwek (Wurm), Leo Nucci (Miller), Fiorenza Cedolins (Luisa), Katarina Nikolic (Laura), Angelo Villari (Un Contadino) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Donato Renzetti Stiffelio Roberto Aronica (Stiffelio), Yu Guanqun (Lina), Roberto Frontali (Stankar), Gabriele Magnione (Raffaele), George Andguladze (Jorg), Cosimo Vassallo (Federico), Lorelay Solis (Dorotea) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni Rigoletto Francesco Demuro (Il Duca), Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Nino Machaidze (Gilda), Marco Potti (Sparafucile), Stefanie Iranyi (Maddalena), Katarina Nikolic (Giovanna), Roberto Tagliavini (Monterone), Orazio Mori (Marullo), Mauro Buffoli (Borsa), Ezio Maria Tisi (Il Conte di Ceprano), Scilla Cristiano (La Contessa di Ceprano) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Massimo Zanetti Il Trovatore Claudio Sgura (Il Conte di Luna), Teresa Romano (Leonora), Mzia Nioradze (Azucena), Marcelo Alvarez (Manrico), Deyan Vatchkov (Ferrando), Cristina Giannelli (Ines), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Ruiz), Enrico Rinaldo (Un vecchio zingaro), Seung Hwa Peak (Un messo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov La Traviata Svetla Vassileva (Violetta), Massimo Giordano (Alfredo), Vladimir Stoyano (Germont), Daniela Pini (Flora), Gianlua Floris (Gastone), Roberto Tagliavini (Dottore Grenvil), Armando Gabba (Barone Douphol), Filippo Polinelli (Marchese d'Obigny) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov I Vespri Siciliani Leo Nucci (Guide di Monforte), Dario Russo (Il Sire di Bethune), Andrea Mastroni (Il Conte Vaudemont), Fabio Armiliato (Arrigo), Giacomo Prestia (Giovanni da Procida), Daniela Dessi (Elena), Adriana di Paola (Ninetta), Raoul d'Eramo (Danieli), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Tebaldo), Alessandro Battiato (Roberto), Camillo Facchino (Manfredo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Massimo Zanetti Simon Boccanegra Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Robert Scandiuzzi (Jacopo Fiesco), Simone Piazzola (Paolo Albiani), Paolo Pecchioli (Pietro), Tamar Iveri (Amelia/Maria), Francesco Meli (Gabriele Adorno) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniele Callegari Un ballo in maschera Francesco Meli (Riccardo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Renato), Kristin Lewis (Amelia), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Ulrica), Serena Gamberoni (Oscar), Filippo Polinelli (Silvano), Antonio Barbargallo (Samuel), Enrico Rinaldo (Tom), Cosimo Vassallo (Un giudice), Enrico Paolillo (Un servo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Gianluigi Gelmetti La forza del destino Dimitra Theodossiou (Leonora), Vladimir Stoyanov (Don Carlo), Aquiles Machado (Don Alvaro), Mariana Pentcheva (Preziosilla), Roberto Scanduzzi (Padre Guardiano), Carlo Lepore (Fra Melitone), Ziyan Afteh (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Adriana di Paola (Curra), Hyung Ho Kim (Mastro Trabucco) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Gianluigi Gelmetti Don Carlo Giacomo Prestia (Filippo II), Mario Malagnini (Don Carlo), Simone Piazzola (Rodrigo), Luciano Montanaro (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cellia Costea (Elisabetta di Valois), Alla Pozniak (Eboli), Irene Candelier (Tebaldo/Una Voce dal Cielo), Antonio Feltracco (Il Conte di Lerma/Un Araldo Reale) Orchestral Regionale dell'Emilia-Romagna, Coro Lirico Amadeus, Fabrizio Ventura Aida Susanna Brachini (Aida), Mariana Pentcheva (Amneris), Walter Fraccaro (Radames), Alberto Gazale (Amonasro), Carlo Malinverno (Il Re di Egitto), George Andguladze (Ramfis), Cosimo Vassallo (Un messaggiero), Yu Guanqun (Una sacerdotessa) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonino Fogliani Otello Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico), Simone del Savio (Montano), Andrea Porta (Un araldo) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti Falstaff Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Ford), Antonio Gandia (Fenton), Svetla Vassileva (Alice Ford), Romina Tomasoni (Mistress Quickly), Daniela Pini (Meg Page), Barbara Bargnesi (Nannetta), Luca Casalin (Dr. Cajus), Patrizio Saudelli (Bardolfo), Mattia Denti (Pistole) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni Giovanna d'Arco Evan Bowers (Carlo VII), Renato Bruson (Giacomo), Svetla Vassileva (Giovanna), Luigi Petroni (Delil), Maurizio lo Piccolo (Talbot) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Bruno Bartoletti |
30 DVDs or 27 Blu-rays in case bound book, (black linen with gold lettering) LP format. All 26 operas [NB this set does not include Aroldo or Jérusalem - Presto] in HD and Surround Sound. Box also includes the Verdi Requiem and Tutto Verdi documentary “Verdi’s Backyard” (52 mins). Includes 124 page booklet. Contains c.40 colour photos. Texts by Philip Gossett (Grove) and Roger Parker. Each opera includes a 10 minute introduction. The case bound book will be in a hard cover slipcase. Sound Format: Blu-ray: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0 Running Time: TBC Booklet: English, German, French Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
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| |  | La scala production
Roberto Alagna (Radamès), Violeta Urmana (Aida), Ildiko Komlosi (Amneris), Carlo Guelfi (Amonasro), Giorgio Giuseppini (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re di Egitto), Sae Kyung Rim (Una Sacerdotessa), Antonello Ceron (Un Messaggero) Milan La Scala Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (director) Picture Format: High Definition 16:9 - please note this Blu-ray disc - BD is not compatible with standard DVD players | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa) Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble– Camerata Silesia, Polish Radio Choir Krakow & Bregenz Festival Chorus, Carlo Rizzi (conductor) & Graham Vick (stage director) Set against the magnificent backdrop of Lake Constance, every production at the Bregenz Festival faces strong natural competitors. But with this first-ever production of Verdi’s “Aida” (in an abridged version) on the lakeside stage, it is easy to overlook the beauty of the surrounding nature. Stage director Graham Vick and set designer Paul Brown conjure up an “open-air spectacle of superlatives” (Die Zeit) that throws a bridge between ancient Egypt and today’s U.S. The stage effects are stunning: ruins of the Statue of Liberty pieced together with the help of giant cranes, boats carrying priestesses and prisoners – parts of the opera even take place in the lake itself! And in the Grand March – one of the most famous marches in opera – a golden elephant comes sailing into view on a barge¿ Under Carlo Rizzi, the Wiener Symphoniker brilliantly support the chorus and soloists, among whom Iano Tamar (Amneris) and Tatiana Serjan (Aida) stand out. Drawing capacity crowds of over 200,000 spectators in just one season, “Aida” is the festival’s most successful opera to date, even more successful than the “Tosca” production, which has been immortalized in the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace”. In this production from 2009 stage director Graham Vick and set designer Paul Brown conjure up an “open-air spectacle of superlatives” (Die Zeit). Photos of the stage went to all over the world. Bregenz festival´s lakeside stage is known from the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” Aida is Bregenz festival´s most successful opera ever! Running Time 135 minutes Picture 16:9, colour Sound PCM Stereo, dts 5.1 Subtitles Italian (original language), English, French, Spanish, German Packaging Blu-ray box Booklet English, German, French “The culture clash of the two communities comes across in some vivid images...The final minutes of the opera, in which Aida and Radames are borne skywards in a flying chariot, are truly breathtaking...Rizzi keeps a tight grip on every rhythm and despatches the opera in double-quick time.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, October 2010 “[Serjan] offers a lightish but cleanly produced spinto that relishes high pianissimo phrases...[Her] confrontation with Iain Paterson's Amonasro is powerfully done...the excellent Scottish bass-baritone makes the most of his imposing stage-presence...The choruses from Silesia and Krakow contribute admirably” International Record Review, September 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Verdi’s epic drama of ancient Egypt comes to life in the Met’s monumental production, captured here in a breathtaking Live in HD presentation. Violeta Urmana stars in the title role of the princess-turned-slave girl, opposite Johan Botha as her lover and Dolora Zajick as her jealous rival. Maestro Daniele Gatti conducts. “We are in an ancient Egypt reimagined by Cecil B de Mille...So what's it all about? The thing that the Met does best, singing. Johan Botha is a stentorian Radames and in the later acts Zajick becomes a chilling Amneris. But it's Violeta Urmana's Aida who steals the show with melting pianissimos and thrilling top notes. Do they act? Of course not, they emote. Is there a single idea on stage. Don't be silly. Just lie back and wallow.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2011 *** “How satisfying it is to have a production of Aida that looks like a production of Aida: no Nazi uniforms, machine guns or alien spacecraft...[Botha] is on form...his unclouded timbre having a sound middle and a ringing top, and his held notes on high certainly are steady...There are some roles in which Urmana takes something of a hell-for-leather approach, but her Aida has many subtle touches.” International Record Review, October 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Firenze 2011
Set Design by DANTE FERRETTI Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera, in a new production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Starring Marco Berti, Luciana D’Intino and Hui He. Verdi’s Aida is one of the most popular operas of all time. It premiered at the Cairo Opera House on Christmas Eve, 1871, and was an immediate commercial success. The plot of Aida is filled with political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance, and has captivated audiences for generations. What piqued general curiosity about this new production of Aida was undoubtedly the operatic debut of Ferzan Ozpetek, a Turkish auteur who, after settling in Italy as a student, has become one of the most prominent directors of Italian cinema in the last decade, directing acclaimed films as “La finestra di fronte” (Facing Windows) and “Mine Vaganti” (Loose Cannons). Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES, JP, Korean Running Time: 151 mins Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Alto Adige Festival, 2012(concert performance)
Junko Saito (Alzira), Francesco Facini (Alvaro), Thomas Gazheli (Gusmano), Joshua Lindsay (Ovando), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Zamoro), Yasushi Hirano (Ataliba), Anna Lucia Nardi (Zuma), Joe Tsuchizaki (Otumbo) Orchestra di Bolzano e Trento & Istituto Corale ed Orchestrale di Dobbiaco, Gustav Kuhn World Première on Blu-ray C Major presents a concert performance of Verdi’s opera Alzira. Alzira is based on the play by Voltaire and displays the composer's maturity through glowing lyric moments, and the weaving together of complex emotional and musical strands. Picture: Full HD Sound: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0 Running Time: Total: 115 minutes (Opera: 105 minutes, Bonus: 10 minutes) Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese Booklet: English, German, French Available Worldwide “All act with conviction as they are singing and bring good expression and diction to their roles...In the title role, Junko Saito sings with warm expressive tone, good diction and also acts with conviction.” MusicWeb International, March 2013 |
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| |  | Staged by Pierfrancesco Maestrini at the Parma Festival, October 2010
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Attila), Susanna Branchini (Odabella), Sebastián Catana (Ezio), Roberto de Biasio (Foresto), Cristiano Cremonini (Uldino), Zyian Atfeh (Leone) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni Based on a Romantic tragedy by Zacharias Werner, Attila is set in the 5th century AD. The opera takes as its starting point Attila’s plans to storm Rome with his army of Huns and the Roman’s attempts to prevent him. As with Nabucco and I Lombardi, Verdi spiced up the action with a number of patriotic choruses, guaranteeing that – against the background of the Italian movement for unification – the opera was a great success. Bonus: 10 minute introduction to the opera Released for the first time on Blu-ray Sound Format: Blu-ray: DTS-HD MA 5.01 PCM 2.0 Running Time: 125 mins (opera 115 mins) Booklet: English, German, French Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE |
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