Beverly Sills was born Belle Miriam Silverman to parents of Russian-Jewish descent. Manteve atividade entre as dcadas de 1950 e 1970. Her debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus was enthusiastically received by critics. Sills's now high-profile career landed her on the cover of Time in 1971, where she was described as "America's Queen of Opera". During her day, American opera singers routinely went overseas for training and professional opportunities. Beverly Sills, the ebullient opera star who enchanted audiences worldwide with her silvery soprano and outgoing personality before embarking on a second career as an arts administrator and. Her life embodied an archetypal American story of humble origins, years of struggle, family tragedy and artistic triumph. Dubbed "America's Queen of Opera" in 1971 by Time magazine, Beverly Sills, the lovely blonde with the toothy smile and fireplace-warm personality, also gained notice for her rise to stardom without benefit of European training, eventually paving the way for other American-trained singers to succeed without the accustomed "Met certification". Thats horrendous. As a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., surreptitiously covered the 1970s' Women's Liberation Movement. La Loca was the first work written expressly as a vehicle for Sills and was her last new role, as she retired the following year. During this period Ms. Sills regularly commuted to New York to perform with the City Opera, which was experiencing hard times. At 7 she graduated to the Major Bowes Capital Family Hour, on which she tap-danced and sang coloratura arias that she had learned phonetically from her mothers Amelita Galli-Curci records. As a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., surreptitiously covered the 1970s Womens Liberation Movement. Donate today, Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations. Jen Carlson has been an editor with Gothamist since 2004. In 1975, three years after Bing retired, Ms. Sills finally made her Met debut in the opera of her La Scala success, The Siege of Corinth. In interviews she tried to play down the significance of this overdue milestone. He was a financial columnist at The Boston Globe from 1961 to 1969. She is survived by her brother Peter Jr., three sisters, Lindley, Nancy. In 1955, after seven previous unsuccessful auditions over a three-year period, Ms. Sills was accepted into the New York City Opera. child stars of the movies. [1] She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, as well as Manhattan's Professional Children's School. Now hes an economist and runs the farm the couple has in Concord. He had invited her several times to sing with the Met, Bing later said. But the one company notably missing from her international schedule was the Metropolitan Opera. She sang with scrupulous musicianship, rhythmic incisiveness and a vivid sense of text. She plans to write Gov. This led to the appointment of the pragmatic, take-charge conductor Julius Rudel, who spearheaded a revival, as general director in 1957. Her father died in 2006, her mother the following year. With support, their daughter thrived over time. They had two children; both of them were afflicted with disabilities. Tests revealed that she had a profound loss of hearing. 2023 New York Public Radio. She received honorary doctoral Buffy, seeing sign language used on TV recently, described it as beautiful, like a ballet.. Theres no point in going on if we cant produce perfectly healthy children, Miss Sills bursts out. Eventually she would command a vast repertoire of one hundred roles, Beverly Sills in 2002, after coming out of retirement as chairwoman of Lincoln Center to lead the Metropolitan Opera. She starred in eight opera productions televised on PBS and several more on other public TV systems. Beverly Sills. Their son, Peter, was diagnosed with mental retardation, and daughter, Muffy, exhibited a severe hearing loss. Her son, Bucky, has spent most of his life in an institution while her daughter, Muffy, discovered she had MS eleven years ago. PH Prefers Neutral to basic solis 6.1 to 8.5, quite toleranr of more extreme conditions Fertilizer Prefers rich conditions on relatively inorganic soils. This recording is a treasure for anyone who loves American opera, with the work remaining somewhat of an outlier . Beverly Sills paid me $5.00 to sit for a performance, double the going rate for a teenage sitter. Beverly, an Autobiography. New York, New York, United States. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. Muffy (died July 3, 2016) was profoundly deaf and had multiple sclerosis; Peter, Jr. is severely mentally disabled. Some of those televised performances have been commercially distributed on videotape and DVD: Others not available commercially include: After her retirement from singing in 1980 up through 2006, Sills was the host for many of the PBS Live from Lincoln Center telecasts. On June 28, 2007, the Associated Press and CNN reported that Sills was hospitalized as "gravely ill", from lung cancer. She will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame later this year. This recording from 1955 is among her first and one that features the soprano at the peak of her talents voice. I was privileged to have known her! The international press was in town to cover the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House, which was presenting the premiere of Samuel Barbers Antony and Cleopatra. Many critics also checked out the other Cleopatra opera across the plaza at Lincoln Center. Artists include: Beverly Sills, Norman Treigle, Maureen Forrester, Beverly Wolff, Spiro Malas, Dominic Cossa, Michael Devlin, and William Beck. Tangerine beard. Liebling had coached Galli-Curci and was Ms. Sillss only vocal teacher. When she retired from her post in early 1989, she had on balance a record of achievement. She was at the zenith of her success during the 1950s to the 1970s. has served me very well.". the stage but as an actress as well. First two images shot in rehearsal room, 1969 during rehearsals for COQ D'OR. Asked about the ecstatic reception she received when she made a belated debut at La Scala in Milan in 1969, Ms. Sills told the press, Its probably because Italians like big women, big bosoms and big backsides.. The diagnoses of her childrens disabilities had come within a six-week period. The critics loved her and predicted great success for her career. For months thereafter, Ms. Sills turned down all singing engagements to be at home. Joseph Volpe, the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager, left, and Beverly Sills at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 2006. Last night Beverly Sills lost her battle with lung cancer, she died at her home in Manhattan at the age of 78. As early as 1956 she performed before an audience of over 13,000 at the Lewisohn Stadium with the noted operatic conductor Alfredo Antonini in an aria from Bellini's I puritani. If not one of its most distinctive and charismatic voices, she certainly became opera's most accessible figurehead and with it enticed a surprisingly wide audience who would have typically turned away from the long-haired art form.Brooklyn-born Belle Miriam Silverman arrived on May 25, 1929, to Russian-Jewish migrs and the good humor already started at birth when she was nicknamed "Bubbles" due to bubbles emanating from her mouth as she arrived. Just as Ms. Sills and her husband were absorbing their daughters deafness, it became clear that their son, called Bucky, now 6 months old, was significantly mentally retarded, with additional complications that eluded diagnosis. The plan was for her to ease into the general directors post, sharing it with Mr. Rudel. July 3, 2007 12 AM PT. But either the invitations conflicted with Ms. Sillss other bookings or the offered repertory did not interest her. Her vision for revitalizing the City Opera included offering unusual repertory and making the company a haven for talented younger American artists. But she said she had always been able to feel cheerful. At 4 she made her debut on a Saturday morning childrens show called Rainbow House, quickly becoming a weekly fixture on the show. But the public, by and large, adored her. Water: Prefers well drained good garden soil, Tolerant of dry conditions in established plants, Intolerant of swampy conditions. At this point Her great memory A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. A Victor Herbert album she recorded won a Grammy Award in 1978. Her loyal commitment to what at the time was an enterprising but second-tier company may have prevented her from achieving wider success earlier in her career. Beverly Sills died in two thousand seven of lung cancer. [1], At the age of three, Sills won a "Miss Beautiful Baby" contest, in which she sang "The Wedding of Jack and Jill". Showing Editorial results for beverly sills. radio work at age twelve to pursue her love of opera. An extensive timeline of her life and career can be found here. Instead of accepting homage, she looks for the young mothers she can warn against rubella. Paolucci, Bridget. NEW YORK - Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, die 05:55. She left New Yorker critic Winthrop Sergeant even wrote of her: If I were recommending the wonders of New York City to a tourist, I should place Beverly Sills as Manon at the top of the list way ahead of such things as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Manon was a title role she had in 1968, just after her famous "Cleopatra". She was born in 1933 as Beverly Josephine Williams in Los Angeles to actress and comedian Joan Davis and actor and writer Si Wills. Beverly Sills. Beverly Sills, Heather Begg, Nicolai Gedda, Paul Plishka, Richard van Allan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Julius Rudel, Ambrosian Opera Chorus & John McCarthy. He then tried to insist that Ms. Sills had a contract to fulfill. Sills was born Belle Miriam Silverman in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, to Shirley Bahn (ne Sonia Markovna), a musician, and Morris Silverman, an insurance broker. Sills began taking singing lessons with Estelle Liebling at the age of seven and a year later sang in the short film Uncle Sol Solves It (filmed August 1937, released June 1938 by Educational Pictures), by which time she had adopted her stage name, Beverly Sills. Tonight I thought about Muffy, and it is so sad to learn of her death. but ready to help if I looked up. She is big, majestic and bosomy, a presence - the true personification of the prima donna stereotype. During her operatic career, Sills recorded eighteen full-length operas: Sills also recorded nine solo recital albums of arias and songs, and was soprano soloist on a 1967 recording of Mahler's Symphony No. I played her as a dumb Dora all the way through and really had fun with the role. We know what happens to the mothers. Her father, Morris, was an insurance broker whose family had emigrated from Bucharest, Romania. She also hosted Live From Lincoln Center on PBS for many years. allowed her not only to master her own enormous repertoire of roles but In 1969, Sills sang Zerbinetta in the American premiere (in a concert version) of the 1912 version of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos with the Boston Symphony. But in 1979 he officially left the City Opera, and Ms. Sills assumed the post. Biography. [1] But six months later she was persuaded to become the chairwoman of the Met. She loved Welsh Corgis, and was predeceased by her parents Beverly Sills and Peter B. Greenough. Beverly Sills, 1929 525 - 2007 72 19601970 1980 . Mr. Greenoughs daughter by a previous marriage, Diana, 20, has the mental age of a 12 year old. Beverly Sills, the bubbly redhead from Brooklyn who rose to iconic status as one of the most beloved and best-known American opera divas of her generation, died Monday of cancer. After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of the New York City Opera. 1. [14] In 1979 she appeared on The Muppet Show, where she famously went into a "high-note contest" with Miss Piggy. 23 SONGS 2 HOURS AND 1 MINUTE JAN 01 2004. When Ms. Sills graduated from the professional school in 1945, at 16, she began 10 years of grinding work, including long stints with touring opera companies, performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and, later, leading roles like Violetta in Verdis Traviata. Recounting these tours for a Newsweek interview in 1969, Ms. Sills said, I had my first high heels, my first updo hair style, my first strapless dress, and I didnt know what to hold up first.. She resigned as Met chairwoman in January 2005, citing family as the main reason (she had to place her husband, whom she had cared for over eight years, in a nursing home). What, exactly, are the new rules on silence in concerts? Awards: AM, DM, HM. It was announced at the same time that she would become co-director of the City Opera. Gothamist is a website about New York City news, arts, events and food, brought to you by New York Public Radio. 2. Her two children and one grandchild survive. . But in 1978 she announced that she would retire in 1980, when she would be 51. That fall Mr. Schonbergs quite negative review of Ms. Sillss singing as Queen Elizabeth I in Donizettis Roberto Devereux was strongly countered by other critics, notably Alan Rich in New York magazine. of the New York City Opera Company. American singer. in her life Sills says "I've done everything I set out to One of the most prominent American singers to achieve lasting fame and success in opera, Peters is noted for her 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, among the longest such associations between a singer and a company in opera. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Beverly Sills, the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung. Under her, the repertory significantly diversified, with productions of rarities like Wagners early opera Die Feen, Verdis Attila and Thomass Hamlet, as well as new operas like Anthony Daviss X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X).. 1961 Sills gives birth to her son, Peter, Jr., known as Bucky. I am very sad to hear that Muffy passed away as I was very fond of her, getting to know her well when we stayed with George and her parents with mutual friends in Acapulco. She could dispatch coloratura roulades and embellishments, capped by radiant high Ds and E-flats, with seemingly effortless agility. Yet reviewing her as Donizettis Lucia at the City Opera in early 1970, Mr. Schonberg wrote: The amazing thing about her Lucia is not so much the way she sings it, though that has moments of incandescent beauty, but the way she manages to make a living, breathing creature of the unhappy girl. He added that Ms. Sills delivered by far the most believable mad scene I have ever seen in any opera house.. On October 29, 1955, she first appeared with the New York City Opera as Rosalinde in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, which received critical praise. 56, died July 3, 2016. [1] Beverly Sills made her 1975 metropolitan Opera debut in Rossini's "The Siege of Corinth"almost a decade later than she should have. Because Morris Silverman worked on commission, the familys income fluctuated wildly, and they moved often. (Her father called her Cutie Pie. ) The opera was Rossinis Siege of Corinth, which had not been performed at La Scala since 1853. was dwarfed by the presence of Miss [Beverly] Sills in her long-delayed and long-awaited Metropolitan debut" on April 7, 1975. Sills used her celebrity to bring attention to and further the charity work she did for the prevention and treatment of birth defects. She inherited a company burdened with debt and unsure of its direction. achieved professional competence on the piano as well, studying with Brooklyn, New York with the Metropolitan Opera, In 1947, she made her operatic stage debut as the Spanish gypsy Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen with the Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company. She and Gonzo also practiced hanging spoons on their noses backstage, much to Sam the Eagle's horror. Victoria Hight. After leaving her City Opera post, she continued an influential career as an arts administrator, becoming the chairwoman first of Lincoln Center and then of the Metropolitan Opera. In snagging that role for herself, Ms. Sills demonstrated a fierce determination born of long frustration. allowing me to try to understand early speech. Born: May 25, 1929 used in a very ornate type of singing), and operatic (in operas) superstar Beverly Sills sings the role of Norina in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale, " at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 1980. He is also an acute epileptic and needs 24-hour-a-day servicing. The most valuable thing Im able to do is talk to the other mamas. Performing increasingly on various radio shows well into her teen years, she made her operatic debut at age 18 singing the role of Frasquita in "Carmen" with the Philadelphia Civic Opera.In the early 1950s Beverly toured with the Charles L. Wagner Opera Company and established herself in the roles of Violetta in "La Traviata" and Micaela in "Carmen". They take her to sing for Uncle Sol in his "Problem Court." He decides, after her perky rendition of the Arditi classic, that she should study in America. She went on to sing in Buenos Aires, Argentina; La Scala in The review went on to praise Sills as "beautiful to look at, graceful in movement, authoritative in style." Despite her sunny, optimistic demeanor, Beverly had her fair share of misfortune. She had two children with Greenough, Meredith ("Muffy") in 1959 and Peter, Jr. ("Bucky") in 1961. Beverly Sills' Farewell Notes. She continued to perform on radio shows and did laundry She hated the city, as she acknowledged in Beverly: An Autobiography, her blunt 1987 memoir: Peter was ostracized by Clevelands rinky-dink version of high society because he had the nerve to fight for custody of his children.. I used to too. Miss Sills says she can talk nose to nose to the mothers about what will happen to their babies. They dont talk about themselves. 56, died July 3, 2016. however. Sills lent her celebrity to further her charity work for the prevention and treatment of birth defects. The Board of Trustees of the Salzburg Festival, The Juilliard Schools Dean and Director of Music,. Listen to The Very Best Of Beverly Sills by Beverly Sills on Apple Music. Buffy was born deaf and suffered from multiple sclerosis. time due, in part, to health problems. Suddenly Ms. Sills found herself the stepmother to three daughters and the mistress of a 23-room house in Cleveland. Her father was an insurance salesman who Beverly Sills Height, Weight & Measurements At 78 years old, Beverly Sills height is 5' 8" (1.73 m) . Diana is in classes for the educable. Everyone you talk to has someone in the family with a birth defect., The other day I was in Bloomingdales and a lady came up to tell me about their son. Milan, Italy; and Covent Garden, London, England. Suddenly she was an opera superstar. Original Title: Diva Beverly Sills Role in a Real-life Drama: Ask the Guy Who Owns One. Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. She was 78. it was overdue, as her voice had been deteriorating (weakening) for some soap commercials, which got her the nickname "Bubbles." Baltimore Opera Company, New York City Opera, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro Coln, San Francisco Opera, DuMont Television Network, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera. Beverly Sills. Nygard is accused of drugging and raping females as young as 14 to satisfy his "near-daily" appetite for sex. She loved Welsh Corgis, and was predeceased by her parents Beverly Sills and Peter B. Greenough. The company had a sense of mission and vitality. She was mainly associated with the operas of Donizetti. Beverly Sills. The highlight during this time came with her role as Helen of Troy in "Mephistopheles" with the San Francisco Opera in 1953. She once said that she had never been a happy woman. When he met Ms. Sills, he was going through a difficult divorce. Wills made her film debut in George White's Scandals (1945) when she was age 11. In the spring of 1979, she began acting as co-director of NYCO, and became its sole general director as of the fall season of that year, a post she held until 1989, although she remained on the NYCO board until 1991. Children's School in New York City. "The Magic of Beverly Sills". During her time as general director, Sills helped turn what was then a financially struggling opera company into a viable enterprise. Sills continued to perform for New York City Opera, her home opera house, essaying new roles right up to her retirement, including the leading roles in Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, Franz Lehr's The Merry Widow and Gian Carlo Menotti's La Loca, an opera commissioned in honor of her 50th birthday. The couple married a year later and went on to have two children: Meredith and Peter Jr. The family, extremely wealthy, lived in Milton, outside Boston. She is currently an editor and reporter on the NYC Accountability desk in the Gothamist + WNYC newsroom. Beverly Sills really does sweep. In 1983 the City Opera became the first American company to use supertitles. Cleveland Liebling encouraged her to audition for CBS Radio's Major Bowes' Amateur Hour, and on October 26, 1939, at the age of 10, Sills was the winner of that week's program. "[1] Soprano Leontyne Price was "flabbergasted at how many millions of things she can do with a written scale. She was famous for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings. Moreover, she felt she had earned the role because of her loyalty as a company member. In the spring of 1976 she sang Violetta in La Traviata at the Met, having gotten the company to agree to invite her longtime colleague Ms. Caldwell to conduct, making her the first woman to take the Mets podium. There were no diva-like traits in this star and the public absolutely adored her for it. Sills received many honors and awards from the 1970s through her final years. May she Rest In Peace. Beverly Sills (born 1929) was a child performer, coloratura soprano, and operatic superstar who retired from her performance career in 1980 to become general director of the New York City Opera Company and a prominent public figure. On November 17, 1956, Sills married journalist Peter Greenough, of the Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper The Plain Dealer and moved to Cleveland. During her performing career, with her combination of brilliant singing, ebullience and self-deprecating humor, Ms. Sills demystified opera and the fine arts in general in a way that a general public audience responded to. The Ballad of Baby Doe. I stopped caring what anyone else thought. But she managed to rid herself of bitterness. Judy Flander is an entertainment feature writer and television critic who for many years during the 70s, 80s and 90s wrote insightful interviews of many well known people, and some not so well known then, were published in newspapers and magazines across the US. degrees from Harvard University, New York University, Temple University, She won first prize in the Miss Beautiful Baby of 1932 contest singing "The Wedding of Jack and Jill." Recognizing Beverly's talents, her mother sent her to dance, piano, and voice lessons, the latter at the age of seven with popular singer Estelle Leibling. "[5] Sills sang in light operas for several more years. She left me with many fond memories of our relationship. In 1966, the New York City Opera revived Handel's then virtually unknown opera seria Giulio Cesare (with Norman Treigle as Caesar), and Sills' performance as Cleopatra made her an international opera star. She toured with several different small opera companies In 1972 Sills added philanthropy to her list of careers, becoming the She has an Ed Hardy tattoo, but she can explain. She also sang concerts with a number of symphony orchestras. Sills' nurturing extended to her autistic son and to her husband, Peter Greenough, a former journalist who lived with her at their . I was always a good singer, she said in the Newsweek interview, but I was a combination of everyone elses ideas: the director, the conductor, the tenor. Until Bucky was 7, Miss Sills and her housekeeper spelled each other taking care of him. A $5.3 million renovation of the New York State Theater in 1982 improved the look and efficiency of the building, though not its problematic acoustics. After I came back, I talked back. Harold C. Schonberg, then the chief music critic of The New York Times, fretted in his columns about Ms. Sillss inconsistency. Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, even among people who never set foot in an. The dates of the first Bowes appearances are incorrect in most printed sources about Sills. In a step outside of the repertoire she is commonly associated with, Sills gave four performances of the title role of Aida in July 1954 in Salt Lake City. She was admired in those roles for transcending the lightness of her voice with dramatic interpretation, although it may have come at a cost: Sills later commented that Roberto Devereux shortened her career by at least four years. Paolo Gallico. The opera singer and administrator Beverly Sills, who has died of lung cancer in Manhattan, aged 78, was among the most acclaimed bel canto sopranos to emerge from the . In 1932, she won Brooklyn s Miss Beautiful Baby contest, under the name Cutie Pie Silverman. she had memorized between fifty and sixty operas. These are the roles that Sills performed on stage or for television or radio.[19]. national chairman of the Mothers' March on Birth Defects. Work kept me going., Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/music/03sills.html. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. joined a Gilbert and Sullivan touring company in 1945. [17] The New York Times writes that "she could dispatch coloratura roulade (music) and embellishments, capped with radiant high Ds and E-flats, with seemingly effortless agility. In 1994 she returned to public life as the she was a regular on a children's Saturday morning radio program. She started singing by age 3, you can see her perform at age 7 in this video and by 16 she was going on long stints with touring opera companies. She stayed long enough to supervise the appointment of Peter Gelb, formerly head of Sony Classical Records, as the Met's general manager, to succeed Joseph Volpe in August 2006. Although she was loved worldwide and spoke five languages, she didn't perform in Europe until she was 36 years old - often citing she didn't like to leave her family for very long. At the age of four But in a 1997 interview, Sills spoke her mind plainly, "Oh, Mr. Bing is an ass. Ela teve uma nica grande rival em sua carreira: a poderosa soprano australiana Joan Sutherland, por causa do estilo bel canto. She was 78. In her prime she was the only real rival to Joan Sutherland as the leading bel canto stylist. With her daughter at her bedside, Beverly Sills succumbed to cancer on July 2, 2007, at the age of 78. Beverly Sills (born Belle Silverman; 25 May 1929 - July 2, 2007) was a Grammy award winning coloratura soprano, perhaps the best-known American opera singer in the 1960s and 1970s. May 25, 1929, during the era of Shirley Temple (1928) and other and public crises. Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. [8] The title was appropriate because Sills had purposely limited her overseas engagements because of her family. She died on July 2, 2007 at her Manhattan residence. This ability earned her a reputation not only as a singer on The Times points out that in the 1960s Sills was beginning to become an opera superstar. You have daughter who can do everything except hear. Beverly Sills, whose sparkling coloratura soprano and warm, spunky personality made her an international opera celebrity and whose experience as a mother . Anyone can read what you share. She then took her skills as a fund-raiser, consultant and spokeswoman to the entire Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts organization. She won a role on a radio soap opera, Our Gal Sunday, where for 36 episodes she portrayed a nightingirl of the mountains.. This vibrant, fine-humored coloratura was able to accomplish what most others of her ilk could or would not do -- she humanized opera and made it approachable to the masses. At the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, apparently. Go to heaven shouting love for thy father and the son. 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