Missing the Magic of Opera?

With much of Australia in lockdown, the thrill of live performance seems elusive. While we stay home and stay safe, noe is a great time t explore the riches of OA TV: Opera Australia on demand.
Six of the Company's most celebrated Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour productions are available to stream -free of charge - on your smart device, Apple TV or computer at tv.opera.org.au
Marvel at the epic grandeur of Aida. Watch sparks fly as Carmen seduces audiences with her Haberana. Feel the frisson of new love in La Bohème and relive the beauty and tragedy of Madama Butterfly. Hear hearts soar - then break - in La Traviata. Sing along to Nessun Dorma in Turandot.
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Get the Party Started with some Boozy Tunes

For at least 10,000 years people have been getting tipsy, bending the elbow and waking up woth a head full of rocks. It figures that songs about booze date back almost as far. But did you know that opera has a genre of fabulous drinking songs all of its own?
There is no drinking aong in opera more famous than La Traviata’s Brindisi. A swooning, waltz-time celebration of the pleasures of love, good company and wine. (click on La Tavaita)

It's one thing to listen to a recording, it's another experience this joyous tune live with a full orchestra and chorus. (click on find out ) Find out for yourself this May when the State Theatre is transformed into the salons of 19th century Paris.
And, if your're curious what other drinking songs can be found in opera, read our top 5 drinking songs that will have you dancing on the tables. (click on from 5 drinking songs)

Cinderella

Thiis lush peoduction of Rogers and Hammerstein' s Cinderella features incredible orxhestrattions,m jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love - the pumpkin, the gless slipper, the masked ball and more - plus some surprisingly new twists.
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The Magic Melodica

Thanks to Barrie Kosky and Komiache Opera Berlin, Finnish writer Minna Lindgren cof Lavender Ladies Detective Agency fame and classical- jazz sensation, pianist and composer, Bro Mantala have written The Magic Melodica, as uproarsly dneeky cpmecy. where our favourite charactes have aged - some of them disgracelly.
Season: December 1 - 11. 2022

 

 

The Phantom of the Opera One of the most successful musicals of all times comes to Arts Centre Melbourne. Hit after Hit puncuates the thrilling score, from the stunning romance of Music of the Night, Think of Me and All I Ask of You to the splendid Masquerade and brilliant title song. Now, you can hear them all in a spectcular new production that has wowed critics across the United Kingdom and North america. It features new direction by Laurence conor, brand new scenic design by Paul rown, lighting design by Tony Award®-Winner Paule Constable, sound design by Mick Porter, new choreography by Scott Amber and the origial, Tony Award®-Winning costume design by Maria Björnson. Overseen by Cameron Mackintosh and Matthew Bourne, the :"simly epic" new staging includes many special effects, from the famous Chandelier to the underground lake, and a large cast and orchestra. The Phantom haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House, He's man and mystery, a deforned genius. And in Christime Daaé, he's found his angel of music: the young woman he would make a star. But how many lives will he sacrifice to maje the music of the night? Season: October 30. 2022 - January 29. 2023.Click on The Phantom of the Opera Subscribe Now Priority Booking Free ticket exchange to another opera or date, when plans change discounted dining special offers from OA's partners and friends in the arts, culture and food scenes shopping vuchers and discounts opportunities to win exciting behind the scenes experience. click on below https://opera.org.au/buy/subscription-packages/promocode/76395?_ga=2.2673776.1767250071.1633824891-1782053719.1614831259   The Wagner Effect Ahead of Lohengrin, get to know the ferman composer who revolutionised opera. click here Read here Michael Fabiano in Concert- renowned tenor - Melbourne Debut. Celebrated American tenor Michael Fabiano will make his M<elbourne debut in February, bestowing his vocal talents on audiences n a one-night - only concert performance at Melbourne City Recital Hall. In what will be his first ever Australian recital, Michael Fabiano in Concert will inclide a selection of impressive tenor arias by some ofthe greatest opera composers including Puiccini, Verdi, Tosti and Duparc. It is a rare chance for audiences to experinece his powerful and emotive stage presence. Hailed as one of the world's best yong tenors, Fabiano has performed at famus opera houses across the world, from New York's Metropolitan Opera to Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He is praised as an ardent and committed performer, his rich tenor boasts ringing top notes and is matched by dashing dramatics and a magnetic stage presence. (Sydney Morning Herald) The award-winning Fabiano will also perform in Adriana Lecouvreur with Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House from Feruary 20 - March 7. Michael Fabiano in Concert. Sunday February 12. 2023 at 7.30pm Appoxiamately 2 hour including one interval. Bookings available here (click on same) or 0433 748 644.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring

A delightful outdoor concert celbrating the genius if Gilbert and Sullivan. In their operas they made many references to nature, flowers, trees and the hope of merry sunshine From Comes the broken Flowers (Trial by Jury) through There Grew a little flower (Ruddigore) to extended highlights from Utopia, Limited or The Flowers of Progress this will be a delightful concert full of some of your favourite. Come and enjoy a glass of bubbly or a cup of tea in the English garden, or inside the historic hills cotrae. the Knowe (circa 1919) if COVID-19 if COVID Regulations permit. Even bring your own picnic and luncheon on the lawn or iunder the 100 year old oak tree. Garden opens at 12pm.
Season: March 13 0 21. 2023 Four peformances, Venue: The Knowe 4 Clarkmont Rd. Sassafras.

 

 

 

 

La Cenerentola

Lyster Opera is performing Rossini’s Opera La Cenerentola at Diamond Creek Uniting Church at 2:00pm on 14 January 2023.  The performance will feature Diamond Creek mezzo soprano Mandy Lyn Brook in the title role

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimmpernel is an action adventure show based on Baroness Orcy's 20th century novel.
Set at the height of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, it tells the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, an English aristocrat who, having been betrayed by his French ife, becomes the heroic and selfless Scarlet Pimpernel. Sir Percy. along with his six closest friends perform daring exspolits as they rescue others from the guillotine - all while having to outwit and outfox Chauvelin, a cunning and ruthless man on a campaign to see every French aristrocat annuhilited, and stop anyone who might get in the way.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is an exploration of contrasts, truth and façade, loyalty and betrayal, and what that looks like individuals , in groups and society. It is the story of three eople who all have different perspectives and motives in life but their endgames in the same . Loyalty.
IN this world the stake id high and the threat isd real.
Featuring a soaring score by Frank Widhorn, specatucalar visual design and everything from singing to swordplay.
Season :g December 9 - 17. 2022. to book go to google and click on OAMaD.
Venue: Geoffrey McMas theatre. Scotch College Campus. 1 Morrison St. Hawthorn.

 

A Christmas Carol

Victorian Opera's new production invites all Melbournians to celebrate the festive spirit and discover the magic of opera as one proudly diverse community,.

The sporot of the festive season woll shine brightly in a new adaptatiion of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, as well as Tiny tim and the Crachit Family, are transported from the 19th century London to contemporay Melbourne in a sparkling reimagination of this timeless tale.
Details: A world premiere
VenueL Palais Theatre St Kilda
Seaon: Wednesday December 14. 2022 at 7.30pm
Thursday DEcember 15. 2022 at 7/3-pm
Friday December 16. 2022 at 7/3-[m
Saturday Deember 17. 2022 at 1pm & 7.30pm,

 

 

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Carmen on Cockatoo Island

The ultimate femme fatale is back, in a brand new performance in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Carmen tosses her hair, stamps her feet and the whole world falls under her spell.
Revel in the irresistable Spanish tunes, sultry story and dark undercurrent of Carmen. You'll hear the flirty Habanera and famous Toreador song amid a spectacle that features motorbike stunts, crashed cars and fireworks.
Your night begins with a ferry ride across to the world-heritage listed sanctuary of Cockatoo Island. Step off the boat and you're surrounded by ayers of history. Once a meeting place forthe rora Nation, the ste is now dotted with the industrial relics of a century of ship-building and architectural marvels dating back to Sydney's convict past.
Today, the idland is a world-class contemporary arts venue hostong everything from the Biensle of Dydney to live concert performances. It's the perfect backdro for Bizet's gritty tale of fate and freedom.
Raise a glass with friends and grab a snack from an array od pop up bars and eateries on the foreshore before settling under the stars for an unforgettable night out.
Season: November 25 - December 18. 2022

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La Bohème

On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends' lives change forever.

Experinxe the romance of the original bohemian love story.

When Mimi meets Rodolfo, it's love at first touch. they head out to bustling, Café where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. But even the deepest love can't warm a freezing winter. The bohemians have some growing up to do/
Some emotions are too big for words alone, and for thatr, we have music, La Bohème exposes your soul to the feelings that only music can express. The music soars with excstasy of love, cracles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss.
Set among the fishnets an fairy lights of 1930s Berlin, this is the final season of one of OA's most popular productions.
Stellar soprano. Valeria Sepe, sings the role of Mimi. Kang Wang sings as the poet, Rodolfo. Lorenzo Passerini and Paul Fitzsimon conduct.
Season: December 31. 2021

 

Turandot

As the moon rises, a death cry wails through imprial Peking. Torture and death mean nothing. Freedom means everything. Can the princess win her heart's desire?

When Pavarotti sang out the top B in Puccini's Nessun dorma across a huge crowd at the 1990 FIFA world cup, the world collectively held its breath. A generation of football fans were learning what opera was all about - music that can transport you to another world, another place,, a place where emotion wells up inside you at the sound of a single note.

Vencerò, the tenor cries - "I will win! I will WIN!"

Few had seen Turandot - Puccini's opera abput a brutal princess and an impossibly brave suitor, who will make any sacrifice to win ker love. How many ot the millions of people who watched that broadcast suddeenkly had an inkling of what the power of music can be.
Turandot is a fantasy opera of poetry and myth, set in an exotice world where fear and love go hand in hand and death is always just around the corner. Nessun dorma is just one of its magnificent moments.
Renowned conductors Christian Badea andLeonardo Sini retrn to Australia t conduct.
Season: January 12 - March 14. 2022.

Marriage of Figaro

A chaotic whirlwind if mistakken identities makes the wedding day of Figaro and Susanna a lesson on hilarity.

Wih a witty, fast-moving libretto and hum-along melodies, it's easy to see wy Mozart's classic comedy continuies to charm audiences the world over.
Musicaally, tis is the ultimate ensemble opera, with brilliant trios, quartets and even a fantasticsextet laced through the score. Dramatically, it's the opera with everything: lovers and liasions, tricks and disguises, lust and laughter.
the Countess lves Count Almaviva, but he's got designs on er servant Susanna, it's Susanna's wedding day, and figaro has no plans of giving up his bride. In one crazy day of diguises, cuplicity, desire and utter madness, the fiancés must fil the philandering noble's seductive advances.
Sir David McVicar's naturalistic staging opens a "comic cauldron of sex and social politics" where comedy has a dark, sharp edge.
True to the 17th century design and detail, historical fashion, specialist Jenny Tiramani clothes the aristcracy in ravishing silks and the servants in cornflower blue. David Finn's radiant lighting strams through vaulted windows illumonating enormous rooms in sunlight and moonbeams as day turns to night.
Season: January 27 - February 18. 2022.

Otello

A flawed hero. An innocent woman. A masterful villain.

Verdi takes the best bits of one of Shalespeare's most famous works tor crate a taut, vivid romantic tragedy.

From the almighty storm to Desdemona's impossibly beautifully Willow song, the emotional music compohnds the tension and coming tragedy.

Verdi's score demands three outstanding voices, while Shakespeare's story takes you on a dramatic journey. Yonghoon Lee is a remarkable singerr-actor, debuting in the role of Otello, against the incomparable Karah Son making her long-awaitededebut as Desdemona. Marco Vratogna is world-renowned for his chilling Iago. Young conductiong sensation Andrea Barristoni conducts.
Henry Kupfer's timeless production explores all the action on a precarious, monumental staircase that dominates the stage. Yan Tax;s costumes would be at home on the most elegant runaway.
Season: February 19 0 March 19. 2022.

La Juive

From her to oblivian...
Can love eer drive out hatred?

A young couple begin a dangerous, passionate affair. In their world, a Jew cannot love a Christian. the punishment is death. Whe it all comes out, Rachel faces two impossible chices. Denying her God, andsaving herself.

Secrets, sex and bitter religious result in human tragedy on a grnad scalke.
This is a rare chance to revel in the gorgeous music od one of the grat French operas. From sacred choruses toimpassioned arias, Halévy's epic opera is a tour-de-force.
Director Olivier Py's production takes a haunting look at love and persecution.
Set in 1930s France with elegant, monochramatic costumes, the production offers glimpses of the Holocaust to come. Imprssive rotating sets fill the stage with a dark grandeur.The score offers audiences the rare gift of two tenors and a bass in leading roles, as well as dramatic crowd scenes.
Soprano Natalie Aroyan performs as Rachel with Diego Torres as her father, the impassioned Eléazar. Award-winning Shanul Sharma is Leopold, Lyric coloratura Sopranos Esther Song performs as Princess Eudoxie.
Season: March 9 - 25. 2022.

Maria Stuarda in Concert

A throne is not made for two... Which //////queen will rule her country and his heart?

Every aria demands greatness. some interpretationa transcend talent to reach for the sublime. With its intense trills and stratospheric highs, Maria Stuarda calls for a true prima donna to portray the ill-fated monarch on this concert rendition of Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece. Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko takes up the mantle of La Superba Montserrat Caballé ad La Stupenda Joan Sutherland,. giving us a Mary Queen of Scots of lyrical baeuty.
Season: March 23 - 25. Venue: Sydney Opera House

The Phantom of the Opera

Experience the phenomenon as the Music of the Night resounds across Sydney Harbour.

The longest running show in musical history is coming to the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stage in a dazzingly new production.

This is The Phantom of the Opera as you've never sen it before. Under the stars on a floating stage in front of Sydney Opera House, with the Harour Bridge and city skyline glittering in the background. With fireworks every night and the pop-up bars and resaurants, this will be an unforgettable evening.

Having played for 35 years on the3 West End, and 34 on Broadway, this inspired interpretation of Gaston Leroux's novel remanis one of the world's favourite musicals. The story of a masked man who lives beneath the Paris Opera House, and the beautiful young singer who becomes his obsession and muse, seduces generation after generation and continues to enchant long-time devotees
Two of Austrlia's most in-demand theatric talents, director Simon Phillips anddesigher Gabriela Tylesova, bring a whole hew level of spectacle to the sho'w defining moments - the mirror, the journey to the Phantom's lair, the chandalier - on a purpose-built stage over te water.
See them bring the Phantom's extraordinary world to life, complete with a massive cast of musical theatr and opera's top talents accompanied by a live orchestra hidden beneath the stage.

Opera Australia announced the cast who will bring Andrew L:loyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera to Sydney Harbour in a new show-stopping outdoor extravaganza.
One od the longest-running and most successful musicals of all times, the trio playing the iconoc leads will be Melbourne-born Joshua Robson as The Phantom, Brisbane performer Geprgeina Hopson as Christine and acclaimed West End Broadway musical theatre performer Callum Francis as Raoul Vicomte de Chagny.

Season: March 25 - April 24. 2022

Madama Butterfly

Filtering beauty, caught and pinned for his pleasure bound, yet beautiful still,.

Constrained, cocooned, caught in a moment of destiny, Butterfly is incadescent. In her exotic embrace, Pinkerton finds paradis, then carelessly condemns his bride to purgatory.

Graeme Murphy's arresting production of Madama Butterfly takes a contemporary look at Puccini's alluring heroine using a towering digital set.
Fragments of film flutter across the stage, creating a dynamic backdrop for Murphy's vision of Butterfly. He draws on his roots in choreography to capture the grace and gravity of a story that begins in raptuous love and ends in the cruellest heartbreak.
Puccini's sublime music imbuers thisageless story with impossible beauty, from the irrepressible famous aria One Fine Day to the intense finale.
South Jorean soprano Sae Kyung Rim's voice is in demand the world over and her Butterfly is richly nuanced. Coached by none other than Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor Ivan Magri gives Pinkerton complexity and depth through his exemplary technique and timbre. His compatriot Carlo Montanaro conducts.
Season: June 39 - July 30. 2022

La Traviata

Raise your glass, bat your lashes, it's Paris in the salons and you're the life of the party. He's staring at you, he's singing for you... Are you tempted?
Violetta wears velvet and lace andfrinks only the fiinest champagne from crystal glasses. Her paries are legendary, her company desired. She's free and high-spirited, living outside society's bounds, and for the sourtedan, it seems like the party will never end. Could a little love change everything?

La Traviata is so popular because it puts a life we can only fream of on stage, with its risqué glamour, joy and sorrows.
Verdi's music sings of freedom with flying melodies, makes merry with rousing drinking songs and leaves us with passionate duets between breaking hearts.
Lavish sets and exquisite costumes combined with Verdi's famous score offer the perfect way to experience opera for the first time, or the chance to revisit a favourite with an exciting new cast.
Season: July 5 - November 4. 2022.

Il Trovatore

This burning tale of gypsies, witchcraft, murder and recompense demands four of the world's most powerful voices.

Blinded by rage as her mother burns at the stake, Azucena throws the executioner';s child into the flames. but in the darkness she has made a fatal mistake, and it is her own child that burns. She seizes the executioner's child and raises him as her own: A family secret that will haunt the next generation until their deaqths.

Verdi had a taste for high drama, and Il Trovatore has all the hallmarks of a great story, enhanced by monumental digital stagecraft: a love triangle, an intergenerational quest for revenge, and a woman willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the man she loves.

but the real atteaction lies in the sensational music: from the famous Anvil Chorus to the series of stunning arias penned for the four leads. It is dome of Verdi's finest music, and demands the finest of voices. Hear the incomparable Leah Crocetto as Leonare, Elena Gabouri as the haunted Azucena, audience favourtite Yonghoon LKee as the title character Manrico and Maksin Aniskan as Count di Luna.
Season: July 15 - 30. 2022.

Attila

The King of the Huns meets his match.

No one can stnd in the way of Attila and his hordes, until a warrior woman turns his head. As he opens his heart to his prisoner Odabella, the barbarian king reveals his weakness.
The scene is set for one of the great revenge operas of the 19th centruy: an early Verdi in the vein of Aida
In the prelude, a mournful cello draws you sown into the gravity and turmoil of war. Verdi's score is full of darkenss, rhythm and kife, displaying the composer's gift for cratong emotion.
This co-production with La Scala was a tremendous success at its Milan premiere. It's a "blockbuser spectacle" (finacilatimes), with four vivid characters, two live hrses ad plenty of crowd scenes.
Director Davide Livermore fuses video projections with colossal set pices to creat anawe-indpiring world for Attila.
World-renowned bass Ildar Abdrazadov sings his acclaimed Attila. Natalie Aroyens is Odabella with Diego Torres as Odabella's lover Foresto. Marco Vratogna performs as the Roman General Exio.
Season: October 29 - November 5. 2022.

Carmen on Cockatoo Island

Venue: /bolt Wharf, cockatoo Island

The ultimate femme fatale is back, in a brand new island performance in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Carmen tosses her hair, stams her feet and the whole world falls uinder her spell,

Revel in the irrestible Spanish tune, sultry story and dark undercurrent of Carmen. You'll hear the flirty Habanera and famous Toreador Song amid a spectacle that features fire-twirling car crashes and fireworks.
Your night begins with a ferry ride across the glittering water to the world-heritage listed sanctuary of Cockatoo Island. Step off the boat and you're surrounded by layers of history. Once a meeting place for the Eora Nation,. the site is now dotted with the industrial relica of a century of shup-building and architectual marvels dating back to Sydney's convist past./

Today, the island is a world-class contemporary arts venue, hosting eveerything from the Biennale of Sydney to live music concerts. It's the perfect backdrop for Bizet's gritty tal; of fate and fereedom.
Raise a glass with friends and grab a snack from an array of pop-up eaterieson the foreshore before settling in under the stars for an unfogettable night out. You can even saik right uo to the event and book a mooring to watch the show.
Season: November 25 - December 18. 2022.

Cinderella

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is the Toney Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of The Sound of Music that delighted Broadway audiences with its surprisingly contemporary take on the classic tale.

This lush production features incredible ordhestrations,m jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love - the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more - plus some surprising new twists! Be transported as you rediscover some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including My Own Little corner, Impossible.It'sPossible and Ten Minutes Ago in this hilarious and romantic experience for anyone who's ever had a dream.
Season: November 25 - December 18. 2022. Venue: Lyric Theatre.

 

Medea

Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory's fiercest soprano roles, Sandra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at notheing in her quest for vengeance, kicking off the highly anticipated 2022-23 Live in HD season. Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of Cherubinis rarely performed masterpiece os tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea's Angonaut hesband, Giasone; soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, glauce, bass Michele Pertusi as Medea's father, Creonte, King of Corinth, and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea's confidante, Neris.
Season: Nove,ber 19. 2022. Venues: Hayden Orpheum, Palace Chauvel, Dency Newtown, Ritz Cinemas, Riverside Theatre, Avoca Beach Picture Theatre, Mount Vic Flicks, Empire Cinemas, Bowral, Gala Cinema, Warrawong, Naroom Kinema, Scotty's Cinema.

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The Turn of the Screw

A gothic horror that leaves a lingering feeling of unease in the mind. The Turn of the Screw is a question of nature versus nuture. A young governess moves into a grand country house to care for two young children and encounters forces far greater than her. Fleeting glances, strange goings on, it's enough to make you mad!
From ghost story to novel, to opera and beyond - this tale has served to awaken the imagination of generations. Benjamin Britten's opera, composed in the 1950s has gone on to be one of the classics of the English repertoire>
This brand new production directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk stars the remarkable Rachelle Durkin as the Governess and Karen Breen ad the malevolent force f Peter Quint, with a stellar supporting cast and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under the baqton of Anthoy Hunt.
Season: April 30 - May 6. 2022

Voss

For the first time n 30 years Voss will once more take Australia by storm as a spectacular stage concert directed by Stuart Mander. Rivhard Meale's epic score is brought to life by Samuel Dundas as Voss and Emma Pearson as Laura. Adelaide symphony Orchestra and State Opera Chorus under the baton of Victorian Opera's Artistic Director, Richard Mills.
Season: Saturday May 7. 2022 at 7.30pm
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Medea

Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory's fiercest soprano roles, Sandra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at notheing in her quest for vengeance, kicking off the highly anticipated 2022-23 Live in HD season. Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of Cherubinis rarely performed masterpiece os tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea's Angonaut hesband, Giasone; soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, glauce, bass Michele Pertusi as Medea's father, Creonte, King of Corinth, and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea's confidante, Neris.
Seeason: November 19. 2022 Venue: Paace Nova Eastend.

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