Brilliant only for those who have the vaguest, shallowest, most superficial comprehension of the da Ponte/Mozart original. The rest of us are appalled, dismayed and sickened.
I don''t know why people are complaining. This actually does quite a lot of justice to the original idea and has just the right note of mixture between the wry humor of Leporello as he recites the lists of the Don's conquests and the horror experienced by Donna Elvira, who goes from haughty "executive woman" practically sneering at Leporello, to stupefied, saddened victim as she is exposed to and ultimately realizes the extent of the depravity of her ex-lover, for whom she was just an entry in his "little black book". I'd say it was quite faithful to the original opera.
Frank Marsala Jr Of course 'in Turchia novantuna' but why be a slave to the original? The producer is from Denmark, no? So he brought his little country into it, for fun!
I thought this would be awful, but now I have not enough words for how much I love this. Is there any rendition of that opera in which Leporello isn't a hundred times more adorable than the protagonist?
Pierde mucha gracia al cantar en inglés, aunque puede ser una forma de dar a conocer la ópera a determinado público. La puesta en escena es curiosa y cantan y actúan bien.
This seems to be from a 2010 film called Juan by Kaspar Holten. This aria has definitely made me want to watch the whole thing - I thought the libretto was particularly well interpreted, at least here staying reasonably true to the original (in translation of course) whilst injecting it with the humour that an opera buffa should have. Bravo.
This scene shows that one doesn't need to be a staging jackass in order to update opera. I love the adaptation they did here, both with the commuting theme and with the libretto. I'm sure Mozart would have been proud for this catalogue scene. How come I had never heard of this before?!
really, it just makes my eyes and ears bleed. Sure, putting swears and translating in english is modernizing now... sure... more like ruining a masterwork.
+Mazark Snow Storm To be fair, Da Ponte's libretti aren't for the faint-hearted either, if you're versed in the Italian of the time. Lots of saucy, naughty jabs and very, very low-level inside jokes. If anything, this modernisation reveals them to contemporary audiences.
While translation isn't perfect, It still catches most of the Don Giovanni spirit. At least based on that scene. Some things are funny and there are little changes, but that is normal in Opera. Even more so in film adaptations.
Intelligente e acuta rielaborazione del materiale dapontiano (anziché limitarsi a tradurre il testo o a modernizzare l'ambientazione, con tutte le contraddizioni e difficoltà che questo spesso implica), di cui coglie comunque pienamente lo spirito (in un certo senso molto più quanto facciano certe regie che si vedono in giro), e il prodotto finale scorre in modo del tutto naturale e senza forzature o "stranezze", proprio perché offre una modernità autentica (che a suo modo rende perfettamente giustizia all'originale) e non solo di facciata. Inoltre devo dire che mi ha fatto riscoprire alcune scene e alcuni elementi (a partire dai bellissimi recitativi di Mozart, in cui ho scoperto una forza e una modernità che non avevo mai colto appieno), che sicuramente influenzeranno i miei futuri approcci al Don Giovanni "vero".
Sono d'accordo. Non riesco a capire se mi piaccia o meno, e devo dire che anche l'originale è attuale anche al giorno d'oggi, ma diciamo che così è reso telesivamente e il lavoro è fatto molto bene.
Assolutamente d'accordo. Potrebbe essere un buon modo per far apprezzare l'opera lirica ai giovani. E del resto certe tematiche sono atemporali, basta adattare il contesto ma il senso ultimo rimane lo stesso, sia che si utilizzino carta e penna sia che si aprano vari folders su un portatile.
im not sure how much the premise makes sense, but this is a really witty and funny take on don giovanni! maybe some strange expressions here and there but i enjoyed this! the meaning was surprisingly kept intact also i knew i recognised juan from somewhere! (christopher maltman who played achilla in glyndebourne's giulio cesare in 2005)
Penso che si debba fare un piccolo sforzo e cantare in italiano come scritto nel libretto ( non capisco un'acca di tedesco ma non per questo, pretendo di sentire un'opera di Wagner tradotta. La lingua è un falso problema: chi desidera avvicinarsi all'Opera di certo non si fa spaventare). Trovo geniale tutto il resto.
mozart for dummies.brilliant.especially if you understand italian freely translated half into gibberish its the music after all that touches the heart. please see the scene from the movie don giovanni directed by losey 'madamina' sung by jose van damn on youtube, capiche? see the whole movie made in 1979. see part ll on youtube. ciao.
What a brilliant piece of work... got me to watch the movie. Juan- 2010. I'm only disappointed with the translation, they have got it wrong in some places and it irked me.
If the name "opera" scares you (elitist, snob, old fashioned ...), this is a good and funny way to understand what is going on in "don Giovanni". After this, you might like to listen to the original in italian . And love it. In former times operas were always translated, could be good, or odd or funny (Wagner in french or Rossini in german!!!). Nowadays, operas are in original language, but some international singers have bad accents...
I think it`s a brilliant, jolly and `alternative` adaptation. No need for it to be in Italian. IT`s just a remake. It conveys the same message in modern terms, in a very funny way. Why not enjoy it for what it is and for the effort of the producers, without having to criticise it. The underlying message , of what bastards men can be, is conveyed fully!! Good work!!
Mozart was just taking the piss out of women with this, but it's so funny and so seductive. the whole opera I mean. It's the sublime music that makes everything so permissible.
Very clever, and a refreshing venue. The singers are fine. The editing very smooth. The English .... well, with a little care, it could have been much better. "How he works"? Whatever happened to "What he does?"? Where was this filmed?
billinrio The English-as-a-second-language angle is wonderful! Idiomatic colloquial English for Elvira and Juan, Leporello using the language as a non-native speaker. Brilliant!
Have no idea how to wrap my head around this. Maybe a good way to introduce youth toopera and the greatest one of all at that? Just don't know,...and poor da Ponte's sublime libretto...still...
Interesting experiment, but the main problem is that this music was composed to be sung in italian, so an experimented singer can find it difficult to sing it in english (or any other language)
ahahahah very beutifull, maybe people who would have never watched opera would see it now!!! ahahahahah but i am italian and there was one thing i was good and it was opera in italian, and with this i will not be good in anything now ahahahah
@rabbatusaru Credo che questa versione abbia definitivamente ucciso Mozart... son riusciti a rovinare qualcosa che pensavo fosse impossibile rovinare tanto era perfetto... ed invece....
No no no no. Cambiare la lingua del testo è come cambiare la musica. Le due cose vanno di pari passo. Se non fosse stato cosi Mozart avrebbe fatto tradurre il testo in tedesco prima di musicarlo. Quelle note sono esattamente cosi per quelle parole cosi pronunciate
I think that is terrible.Mozart no needs to be modernized because it's work is timeless the libretto is in italian,there is no other way to lissen don giovanni. The video above is like a "beeep"..
Thank you you're very kind.I don't think that i've not sense of yumor you shall be know the people that you fucking off before you do it. Also the right way to write fuck off is not vafancul but vaffanculo.Can you change it with the right word?
come on - this is worth a chuckle; and will probably bring people to listen to the original that would've never have considered it. being snobby and elitist is why the classics fade. this opera was always meant to invoke uproarious laughter, in any age
I've seen and heard worse. At least this is faithful to the plot points, and c'mon, if Don Giovanni were here today, he'd be posting his conquests on Facebook and Twitter under a fake name, after Leporello gets a shot of her on his iPhone. What do they do with the final Commendatore scene though, the point is lost if DG's demise is not supernatural and horrific. He can't meet with a routine end. How did they do it?
Madamina, il catalogo è questo, delle belle che amò il padron mio, un catalogo egli è che ho fatt'io, osservate, leggete con me, osservate, leggete con me. In italia 640, in almania 231, 100 in francia in turchia 91 maaaaaaa in Ispagna, ma in Ispagna son già 1003, 1003, 1003...
the imdb link is above, also you can find DVD online e.g. smile.amazon.com/Blu-ray-Scadinavian-sous-titres-français-Francaise/dp/B006C4DVMW/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1465577969&sr=8-4-fkmr0&keywords=juan+mozart+2001
Good idea, but the english makes it sound like a cheap broadway musical in my opinion... leporello sounds a little too Russian, in accent, in English, .... generally not singing in a language other than written is infinitely lame and counter what composer wrote.... but the idea is very good.
Speaking as a German, the German translation I listened to was rather atrocious. ( La ci darem la mano becomes: Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben / Komm auf mein Schloss mit mir. / Kannst du noch überlegen? / Es ist nicht weit von hier.) In the context of this film, I find a translation fitting. On the stage in a normal production, not so much.
First of all this is an interesting experiment although the English is often poor and should have been checked. Nevertheless Mozart's music was written for the Italian libretto and they match perfectly so I would not want to see the opera in any language other than Italian.
I agree. At first I thought it was a poor English translation, until I realized it was only Leporello's lines that were grammatically incorrect, as well as sung with an accent.
lol but nice experiment. Most of americans will never listen to this opera anyway because they hate worthy things but in English they might listen a piece and know a little.
"Oh shit, it's Elvira!" is like 1/3 of the plot of this opera.
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This is brilliant. Perfect colloquial translation, beautifully sung and acted. Absolutely gets every nuance of the original. Love it!
Suzanne Derringer Brilliant? ‘No SCHIFO! 🤮
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Brilliant only for those who have the vaguest, shallowest, most superficial comprehension of the da Ponte/Mozart original. The rest of us are appalled, dismayed and sickened.
Orribile traduzione in una lingua barbarica
Ma dai, non si può ...
... Per rappresaglia canterò tutte le canzoni dei Beatles in italiano!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
I don''t know why people are complaining. This actually does quite a lot of justice to the original idea and has just the right note of mixture between the wry humor of Leporello as he recites the lists of the Don's conquests and the horror experienced by Donna Elvira, who goes from haughty "executive woman" practically sneering at Leporello, to stupefied, saddened victim as she is exposed to and ultimately realizes the extent of the depravity of her ex-lover, for whom she was just an entry in his "little black book". I'd say it was quite faithful to the original opera.
After a moment of astonishment, I started laughing and kept on laughing like an an idiot. I think Mozart would have laughed, too. FUNNY!!!
in turkey 91, not in denmark 97...
Mar-ve-lous!!! I love this aria so much! the adaptation keeps the spirit nicely!
I've sung the role in English and Italian . . . it's supposed to be "Turkey" :)
Frank Marsala Jr Of course 'in Turchia novantuna' but why be a slave to the original? The producer is from Denmark, no? So he brought his little country into it, for fun!
No problem with that. I was just commenting for those unaware that the Italian is Turkey :)
I thought this would be awful, but now I have not enough words for how much I love this. Is there any rendition of that opera in which Leporello isn't a hundred times more adorable than the protagonist?
Pierde mucha gracia al cantar en inglés, aunque puede ser una forma de dar a conocer la ópera a determinado público.
La puesta en escena es curiosa y cantan y actúan bien.
Outstanding rendering version in english ! Speechless ! Bravo ! Merci beaucoup from Paris France.
Like hearing it for the first time, after hearing it a thousand times. Thank you for posting.
This seems to be from a 2010 film called Juan by Kaspar Holten. This aria has definitely made me want to watch the whole thing - I thought the libretto was particularly well interpreted, at least here staying reasonably true to the original (in translation of course) whilst injecting it with the humour that an opera buffa should have. Bravo.
faeryty its sh-t but organic sh-t compared to gmo sh-t from gaga etc.
They replaced "Turkey" with "Denmark" in the register. Art must be brave.
... Nnnno, it's Denmark in the original lyrics too.
maybe Ruth its hamlet fan? Ruth go in the Oper first, baby!!!!
Juan Romero I've seen the damn show twice. The lyrics have translated to Denmark each time.
it is because the film production
www.imdb.com/title/tt1465491/
Oh, I just noticed it.
The English text is weird to listen to at first, but this is not bad at all. Actually, much more this than a lot of stupid modern stagings.
This scene shows that one doesn't need to be a staging jackass in order to update opera. I love the adaptation they did here, both with the commuting theme and with the libretto. I'm sure Mozart would have been proud for this catalogue scene. How come I had never heard of this before?!
really, it just makes my eyes and ears bleed.
Sure, putting swears and translating in english is modernizing now... sure...
more like ruining a masterwork.
There is anything to modernize.
You mean that there's nothing to be modernized right?
Mazark Snow Storm right... Sorry, my English is not the best!
+Mazark Snow Storm To be fair, Da Ponte's libretti aren't for the faint-hearted either, if you're versed in the Italian of the time. Lots of saucy, naughty jabs and very, very low-level inside jokes. If anything, this modernisation reveals them to contemporary audiences.
While translation isn't perfect, It still catches most of the Don Giovanni spirit. At least based on that scene. Some things are funny and there are little changes, but that is normal in Opera. Even more so in film adaptations.
Very cleverly done! Thanks for posting this!
Keleti (Eastern) train station, Budapest, Hungary, between 2 MÁV InterCity trainsets. How nice.
Nyugati (Western Station)
Yes, it is at Nyugati.
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Intelligente e acuta rielaborazione del materiale dapontiano (anziché limitarsi a tradurre il testo o a modernizzare l'ambientazione, con tutte le contraddizioni e difficoltà che questo spesso implica), di cui coglie comunque pienamente lo spirito (in un certo senso molto più quanto facciano certe regie che si vedono in giro), e il prodotto finale scorre in modo del tutto naturale e senza forzature o "stranezze", proprio perché offre una modernità autentica (che a suo modo rende perfettamente giustizia all'originale) e non solo di facciata.
Inoltre devo dire che mi ha fatto riscoprire alcune scene e alcuni elementi (a partire dai bellissimi recitativi di Mozart, in cui ho scoperto una forza e una modernità che non avevo mai colto appieno), che sicuramente influenzeranno i miei futuri approcci al Don Giovanni "vero".
Sono d'accordo. Non riesco a capire se mi piaccia o meno, e devo dire che anche l'originale è attuale anche al giorno d'oggi, ma diciamo che così è reso telesivamente e il lavoro è fatto molto bene.
Assolutamente d'accordo. Potrebbe essere un buon modo per far apprezzare l'opera lirica ai giovani. E del resto certe tematiche sono atemporali, basta adattare il contesto ma il senso ultimo rimane lo stesso, sia che si utilizzino carta e penna sia che si aprano vari folders su un portatile.
Non si può sentire una roba del genere l'opera è in italiano non si può cambiare lingua
English is such a hard language for opera... :/
Italian is the best
Hahaha this is blasfemy! But really entretaining. I don't know what to think! It's the third time I watch it :(
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This movie deserves to be watched at secondary schools!!!!
Absolutely wonderful! This is an extract, is there any chance of seeing the whole film?
im not sure how much the premise makes sense, but this is a really witty and funny take on don giovanni! maybe some strange expressions here and there but i enjoyed this! the meaning was surprisingly kept intact
also i knew i recognised juan from somewhere! (christopher maltman who played achilla in glyndebourne's giulio cesare in 2005)
This is the way of doing opera in our times. Beautiful.
Esatto! Fare di tutto un ridicolo musical!
brilliant and funny! it captures the spirit of Don Giovanni just perfectly, WAM would have loved it!
Budapest, Nyugati pu :D
Now that was intresting. I think I'm gonna see the movie.
Nice piece of filmmaking too!
Filmed in Budapest, Hungary 😊
Ma ma mia mi piace questo versione
Just watched it again. Love it even more.
Sir Giovanni travelling by underground? Leporello has a macbook? Did I miss something?
English is fine, at least youngsters like it. I enjoyed.
Penso che si debba fare un piccolo sforzo e cantare in italiano come scritto nel libretto ( non capisco un'acca di tedesco ma non per questo, pretendo di sentire un'opera di Wagner tradotta. La lingua è un falso problema: chi desidera avvicinarsi all'Opera di certo non si fa spaventare). Trovo geniale tutto il resto.
mozart for dummies.brilliant.especially if you understand italian freely translated half into gibberish its the music after all that touches the heart. please see the scene from the movie don giovanni directed by losey 'madamina' sung by jose van damn on youtube, capiche? see the whole movie made in 1979. see part ll on youtube. ciao.
What a brilliant piece of work... got me to watch the movie. Juan- 2010. I'm only disappointed with the translation, they have got it wrong in some places and it irked me.
The translation is frankly awful and not just "wrong in some places."
Great! Amazing!!!
UlrichTemple Amazing nel senso che t’ammazza (it kills you))! 🤪
If the name "opera" scares you (elitist, snob, old fashioned ...), this is a good and funny way to understand what is going on in "don Giovanni". After this, you might like to listen to the original in italian . And love it. In former times operas were always translated, could be good, or odd or funny (Wagner in french or Rossini in german!!!). Nowadays, operas are in original language, but some international singers have bad accents...
I think it`s a brilliant, jolly and `alternative` adaptation. No need for it to be in Italian. IT`s just a remake. It conveys the same message in modern terms, in a very funny way. Why not enjoy it for what it is and for the effort of the producers, without having to criticise it. The underlying message , of what bastards men can be, is conveyed fully!! Good work!!
Lep in a train station should have had a big flash mob singing "Chubby chubby chubby" along with him.
This is so relevant. Bravi tutti! Whoever did this, did something great!
Mozart was just taking the piss out of women with this, but it's so funny and so seductive. the whole opera I mean. It's the sublime music that makes everything so permissible.
I think he was taking the piss out of Don Giovanni, wasn't he?
....poveri noi!!!!
claudio monaco Caesaeee Novaee! ORRIPILANTE !
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Very clever, and a refreshing venue. The singers are fine. The editing very smooth. The English .... well, with a little care, it could have been much better.
"How he works"? Whatever happened to "What he does?"?
Where was this filmed?
billinrio The English-as-a-second-language angle is wonderful! Idiomatic colloquial English for Elvira and Juan, Leporello using the language as a non-native speaker. Brilliant!
Thumbs UP !
ma cosa?
Where the hell can I get this for less than $50 U.S. (the price of the DVD on U.S. Amazon).
Loftiness, can you please upload more clips from this movie? I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks!
That was funny!
It made me laugh a lot😄
Have no idea how to wrap my head around this. Maybe a good way to introduce youth toopera and the greatest one of all at that? Just don't know,...and poor da Ponte's sublime libretto...still...
In English: unlistenable!
Heard the Zauberflöte,terrible!
Interesting experiment, but the main problem is that this music was composed to be sung in italian, so an experimented singer can find it difficult to sing it in english (or any other language)
Well done. Very entertaining.
Fantastico!
Maravilloso 😘 gracias el cielo en Buitrago 🎆🎆🙏🎉💕🌈💋
BRAVI I LIKE THE IDEA IS FANTASTIC!!!!!!! LET´S DO LA TRAVIATA LIKE THIS :-)
Eli Jordano Bravi? Direi SOMARI!! 😩
Surprising !
Wonderful 😂 genius 🌻
Nice remake with laptop and train station.
Carino, penso guarderò il film
Il Pensatore Certo che se pensi sempre così sei messo MALE!
Where i can find the full movie
I would like to know too.
ahahahah very beutifull, maybe people who would have never watched opera would see it now!!! ahahahahah
but i am italian and there was one thing i was good and it was opera in italian, and with this i will not be good in anything now ahahahah
Raffaele Salerno È di una cacofonia spaventosa!
Il provincialismo degli anglofoni raggiunge livelli iperridicoli! Ragazzi, la lingua non è un kit intercambiabile...l'inglese è lingua mollusca...
@rabbatusaru Credo che questa versione abbia definitivamente ucciso Mozart... son riusciti a rovinare qualcosa che pensavo fosse impossibile rovinare tanto era perfetto... ed invece....
Leporello XXI
Well it could be better... but there is a question, if it could be worse...
Bravissimi
Mozart è immortale ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mai Leporello! Ötletes! Tetszett! Ki a Leporello? Bravo!
No no no no. Cambiare la lingua del testo è come cambiare la musica. Le due cose vanno di pari passo. Se non fosse stato cosi Mozart avrebbe fatto tradurre il testo in tedesco prima di musicarlo. Quelle note sono esattamente cosi per quelle parole cosi pronunciate
Clever! Better than a lot of stupid actualization just in costume.
Interesting experiment but a different language breaks the rhythm of the music (and it is a pity to loose Da Ponte wordsI
Where can I get movie
Why is no one else in this station?
É estranho e também triste que esse quadro de relacionamento
machista, de mais de 200 anos, se adapte tão bem para a atualidade.
Lol Ok lesbo
Where do I get the actual movie?
Leporello has such a huge Russian accent. Who are the singers? Conductor? House?
Solovey Razboynick Leporellov! 😊
The Giovanni is Christopher Maltman. Brilliant!
Poor Mischa
Who ara You?
Does anyone know details on this English language production?
what is for sure, it is filmed in Budapest downtown!
I liked so much! It's a very interesting and refreshing version.
Also Mozart appreciate this !
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I think that is terrible.Mozart no needs to be modernized because it's work is timeless the libretto is in italian,there is no other way to lissen don giovanni. The video above is like a "beeep"..
Ennio Mostarda no sense of humor vafancul
Thank you you're very kind.I don't think that i've not sense of yumor you shall be know the people that you fucking off before you do it. Also the right way to write fuck off is not vafancul but vaffanculo.Can you change it with the right word?
come on - this is worth a chuckle; and will probably bring people to listen to the original that would've never have considered it. being snobby and elitist is why the classics fade. this opera was always meant to invoke uproarious laughter, in any age
Disagree. I think that it is great to have an adaptation here.
How can someone be a fan of Don Giovanni and not find this amusing?? It's not like they're actually trying to replace the original.
I've seen and heard worse. At least this is faithful to the plot points, and c'mon, if Don Giovanni were here today, he'd be posting his conquests on Facebook and Twitter under a fake name, after Leporello gets a shot of her on his iPhone. What do they do with the final Commendatore scene though, the point is lost if DG's demise is not supernatural and horrific. He can't meet with a routine end. How did they do it?
Madamina, il catalogo è questo, delle belle che amò il padron mio, un catalogo egli è che ho fatt'io, osservate, leggete con me, osservate, leggete con me. In italia 640, in almania 231, 100 in francia in turchia 91 maaaaaaa in Ispagna, ma in Ispagna son già 1003, 1003, 1003...
do you have a link for this production?
the imdb link is above, also you can find DVD online e.g. smile.amazon.com/Blu-ray-Scadinavian-sous-titres-français-Francaise/dp/B006C4DVMW/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1465577969&sr=8-4-fkmr0&keywords=juan+mozart+2001
Good idea, but the english makes it sound like a cheap broadway musical in my opinion... leporello sounds a little too Russian, in accent, in English, .... generally not singing in a language other than written is infinitely lame and counter what composer wrote.... but the idea is very good.
pavel pivnev Just out of curiosity, what does Don Giovanni in German sound like to you?
Speaking as a German, the German translation I listened to was rather atrocious. ( La ci darem la mano becomes: Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben / Komm auf mein Schloss mit mir. / Kannst du noch überlegen? / Es ist nicht weit von hier.) In the context of this film, I find a translation fitting. On the stage in a normal production, not so much.
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First of all this is an interesting experiment although the English is often poor and should have been checked. Nevertheless Mozart's music was written for the Italian libretto and they match perfectly so I would not want to see the opera in any language other than Italian.
ComtedeMonteC I think Loprello has broken English because he's meant to be Russian in this version. It sounds so by his accent.
I agree. At first I thought it was a poor English translation, until I realized it was only Leporello's lines that were grammatically incorrect, as well as sung with an accent.
I think the English version is very funny!
lol but nice experiment. Most of americans will never listen to this opera anyway because they hate worthy things but in English they might listen a piece and know a little.
Fa assolutamente cagare! :D
Dorian Yarg Peggio, fa CACARE!
OMG! You see and don't send any punishment !
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My ears are bleeding...
The funny thing is, this video will look older in 10 years because of the MacBook. Mozart's original will last forever.
damn this is funny
Bellissimo!!!
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