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Montserrat Caballé
María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch or Folc, simply known as Montserrat Caballé, was a Spanish (Catalan) operatic soprano. Widely considered to be one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, she won a variety of musical awards throughout her six-decade career, including three Grammy Awards.
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Born 12 April 1933 · Died 6 October 2018 · Q151435
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2026· 7 entries
La Voz de Galicia: Vilanova renderá homenaxe a Montserrat Caballé e Pavarotti no Xardín Umbrío
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Diario de Arousa: Vilanova acoge un concierto de música clásica y ópera tributo a Montserrat Caballé y Pavarotti
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OkDiario: Montserrat Caballé, cantante de ópera, sobre su filosofía de vida: «Trabajo deprisa para vivir despacio, la...
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Mshale: Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Live At Ku Club Ibiza, 1987) Jitesh Sharma (XSrvnq40oC)
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OkDiario: Freddie Mercury, cantante de rock, sobre la soprano Montserrat Caballé: «Es sensacional, tiene el mismo tip...
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2024· 1 entry
Daily Express: Freddie Mercury was terrified his Montserrat Caballé duet would be 'a complete disaster'
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2022· 1 entry
9to5google: Google Doodle pays tribute to Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé on 89th birthday
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “La Bohème / Verdi & Puccini Duets”.
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Released album “Diva Eterna”.
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2018· 10 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Program: Montserrat Caballé: A celebration
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MercoPress: Montserrat Caballé laid to rest next to her parents in Barcelona
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Yahoo: Mourners bid farewell to legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe
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The Guardian: Montserrat Caballé obituary
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Washington Post: Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera star with ‘indescribably beautiful’ voice, dies at 85
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Yahoo: Montserrat Caballe, ‘Barcelona’ Spanish Soprano, Dies at 85
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The Daily Telegraph: Montserrat Caballé was the last of her kind: an eccentric prima donna who's one of the great singers of her generation
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Irish Sun: Montserrat Caballe dead – Freddie Mercury’s Barcelona opera co-singer dies aged 85
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NME: Tributes paid as ‘Barcelona’ singer Montserrat Caballé dies aged 85
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Died 2018-10-06.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Gemma di Vergy”.
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2015· 1 entry
Caballé was under prosecution over allegations of tax evasion or fraud
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Salome”.
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2010· 1 entry
Had registered in Andorra in order to avoid paying tax in Spain
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Cristóbal Colón”.
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Released album “Icon: Montserrat Caballé”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Maria Stuarda”.
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Released album “The Original Jacket Collection: Montserrat Caballé”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Die großen Erfolge”.
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Awarded Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “French Opera Arias”.
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Released album “Strauss: Scenes from “Salome“ / 5 Lieder / Boito: Prologue from “Mefistofele””.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Viva La Diva”.
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Patrick O'Connor wrote in Gramophone that:no diva in memory has sung such an all-encompassing amount of the soprano repertory, progressing through virtually the entire range of Italian light lyric, lirico-spinto and dram
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Starred in her own documentary film Caballé: Beyond Music, which featured many well-known opera singers, including Domingo, Pavarotti, Carreras, and Renée Fleming
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Released album “The Very Best of Montserrat Caballe”.
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2002· 1 entry
Appeared as Catherine of Aragon in Henri VIII by Saint-Saëns, and in 2004 in the title role of Massenet's Cléopâtre, both at the Liceu
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Songs of the Spanish Renaissance, Vol. 1”.
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “La Gioconda”.
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Released album “Roberto Devereux”.
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Released album “Deutsche Grammophon Collection: Wolf: The Spanish Songbook / Strauss: Five Songs for Voice and Orchestra”.
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Released album “La traviata”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci”.
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Released album “Guillaume Tell”.
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Released album “Ein Abend mit Montserrat Caballe”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Pagliacci”.
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Released album “Friends for Life”.
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Mike Moran produced the album Friends For Life, which includes duets with Caballé and such singers as Bruce Dickinson, Johnny Hallyday, Johnny Logan, Gino Vannelli, and Helmut Lotti
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Released album “Verdi & Puccini: Scenes & Arias”.
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1996· 4 entries
Awarded Echo Klassik – Female Singer of the Year (1996).
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Released album “Erato Collection, Volume 14: Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra / Quatre derniers Lieder”.
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Released album “Our Christmas Songs”.
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Released album “Bernstein Conducts Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Symphony no. 3 "Kaddish"”.
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1995· 8 entries
Released album “Two Voices One Heart-1993”.
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Released album “Grandi Voci”.
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Worked with Vangelis for his album El Greco, dedicated to the Greek painter
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Released album “Récital : Monteserrat Caballé”.
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Released album “Great Moments Of...”.
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Released album “Lucia di Lammermoor”.
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Released album “Faust (Extraits)”.
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Released album “Diva”.
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Hijo de la luna”.
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Released album “The Voice of Opera”.
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Writing for The Independent, Fiammetta Rocco said: "Caballe is one of the last of the true divas
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Released album “Manon Lescaut”.
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Released album “Casta diva”.
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Released album “The Symphonies "Jeremiah / The Age of Anxiety / Kaddish" / Serenade”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix”.
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Released album “Grandes Cantantes Líricos Españoles”.
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Released album “Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana / Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “From the Official Barcelona Games Ceremony”.
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1991· 6 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (1991).
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Released album “Pagliacci / Il tabarro”.
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Released album “Great Operatic Duets”.
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Released album “Grandes intérpretes - Arias”.
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Before the 1999 UEFA Champions League final in Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium
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Released album “Eternal Caballe”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “La bohème”.
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Released album “Un ballo in maschera”.
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Released album “Carmen / Manon Lescaut / Salome / Les Huguenots / Faust / Louise / Roméo et Juliette”.
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Released album “Cantate : Clovis et Clotilde / Symphonie “Roma””.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “Il trovatore”.
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Released album “Lucrezia Borgia”.
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Released album “I masnadieri”.
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Released album “Il Corsaro”.
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1988· 5 entries
Released album “Barcelona”.
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Won Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1988).
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Released album “Luisa Miller”.
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Released album “Norma”.
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Released album “Bellini & Verdi: Airs d’Opéras”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Live in Paris”.
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Released album “Cançó d'amor i de guerra”.
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Caballé made a rare excursion into the world of pop music when she released a duet with Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock band Queen, which was titled "Barcelona"
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1986· 2 entries
Also took a role in the biographic film Romanza final, directed by José María Forqué
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Released album “Tosca”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Mefistofele”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “A la UNESCO”.
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Released album “Andrea Chénier”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Richard Wagner”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Il turco in Italia”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “I puritani”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Verdi Favorites”.
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Was Tosca in San Francisco with Pavarotti, Norma in Madrid, and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met opposite José Carreras
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Debussy: La Damoiselle Elue / Chausson: Poème de L'Amour et de la Mer [Caballé]”.
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Caballé made her debut with the San Francisco Opera in the title role of Puccini's Turandot
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1976· 1 entry
Caballé appeared at the Met once again as Norma and sang her first Aida in that house, alongside Robert Nagy as Radamès and Marilyn Horne as Amneris
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1975).
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Released album “Presenting Montserrat Caballe”.
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1974· 3 entries
Caballé appeared in the title role of Verdi's Aida at the Liceu in January, in Verdi's I vespri siciliani at the Met in March, and in Parisina d'Este at Carnegie Hall, also in March
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Released album “Aida”.
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Released album “Love Duets from Giovanna d'Arco · Don Carlo · Mefistofele · Manon Lescaut”.
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1973· 4 entries
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1973).
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Released album “Giovanna d’Arco”.
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Returned to Chicago to perform the title role in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda with Viorica Cortez but left mid contract because she was suffering with phlebitis
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Released album “Turandot”.
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1972· 2 entries
With Domingo as Pollione) and later the role of Adalgisa, to Joan Sutherland's Norma in a 1984 Decca recording conducted by Richard Bonynge
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Made her first appearances at Covent Garden and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, both in the role of Violetta
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Il pirata”.
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Released album “Don Carlo”.
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1970· 2 entries
Caballé made her official debut at La Scala in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia
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Released album “Monsterrat Caballé: Puccini Arias”.
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1969· 2 entries
Caballé appeared at the Arena di Verona in a Jean Vilar production of Verdi's Don Carlo
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For the role of Liù in Puccini's Turandot, with Birgit Nilsson in the title role and James King as Calàf
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “Rossini Rarities”.
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Released album “In Concert, 1968”.
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Released album “Zarzuela Love Duets”.
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1967· 2 entries
To sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly, and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora alongside Richard Tucker as Manrico in Il Trovatore, Desdemona in Otello with James McCracken in the t
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Released album “A Richard Strauss Song Recital”.
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1966· 3 entries
Caballé made her first appearance with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company as Maddalena di Coigny in Giordano's Andrea Chénier and her Italian debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore,
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Released album “Songs of Enrique Granados”.
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Released album “Zarzuela Arias”.
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1965· 3 entries
And then appeared at leading opera houses
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Released album “Arias de opera”.
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When she replaced a pregnant Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall, which earned her a 25-minute standing ovation
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1962· 1 entry
Caballé returned to Barcelona and debuted at the Liceu, singing the title role in Strauss's Arabella
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1961· 1 entry
Starred as Iphigénie in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the National Theatre of S
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1956· 1 entry
As a last minute replacement as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-04-12.
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