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Opera:
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Kátya
Kabanová
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Orig. Language:
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Czech
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Composer
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Janacek
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Librettist
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Janacek
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Description:
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Opera in III Acts
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Notes:
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Text after Vincenc Cervinka’s translation
of Ostrovsky’s “The Storm”
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Time
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About 1860
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Place:
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The little town of Kalinov on the banks of
the Volga
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Premiere Date:
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November 23, 1921
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Premiere Location:
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Brno
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Katerina Kabanova (Katya)
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Soprano
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L
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Boris Grigoryevich
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Tenor
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L
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Marfa Kabanova (Kabanicha)
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Contralto
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F
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Vanya Kudrjasch
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Tenor
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F
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Barbara (Varvara)
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Mezzo-Soprano
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F
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Dikoy
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Bass
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F
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Tichon Kabanov
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Tenor
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F
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Kuligin
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Baritone
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S
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Glascha
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Mezzo-Soprano
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S
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Fekluscha
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Mezzo-Soprano
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B
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A Woman (Zena), (Act III)
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Alto
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CB
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A Voice (Act III)
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Tenor
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CB
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Minimum Chorus:
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24
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Divisi:
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Opera:
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Khovanshchina
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The Khovansky Rising
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Orig. Language:
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Russian
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Composer
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Mussorgsky
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Librettist
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Mussorgsky & Vladimir Stassov
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Description:
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Opera in V Acts
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Notes:
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Completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov
(version 1883)
Shostakovich edition - 1959.
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Time
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1682-9
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Place:
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Moscow, Estate of Prince Khovansky, A Wood
Near Moscow
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Premiere Date:
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February 21, 1886
& November
7, 1911.
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Premiere Location:
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St. Petersburg.
Kononov Hall (orig.)
St. Petersburg. (Official premiere, 1911)
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Prince Ivan Khovansky
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Bass
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L
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Prince Vassily Galitzin
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Tenor
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L
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Dossifej (Dositheus)
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Bass
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L
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Marfa (Martha)
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Mezzo-Soprano
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L
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Prince Andrej Khovansky
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Tenor
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F
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The Boyar Shaklovity
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Baritone
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F
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Emma
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Soprano
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F
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A Scrivener (Public letter writer)
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Tenor
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S
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Susanna
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Soprano
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S
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Kouzka
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Tenor
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S
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A Lutheran Pastor
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Baritone
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S
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Varsonofiev
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Bass-Baritone
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B
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1st & 2nd
Musketeers (Streltsy)
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Basses
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B
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A Young Streshniev (Boyar, Herald)
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Tenor
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B
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2 Body Guards of Peter the Great,
(Petrovsky & Poteshny)
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Mutes
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3rd Musketeer (Streltsy)
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Mute
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Minimum Chorus:
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40
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Musketeers, Old Believers, Maids-in-Waiting,
Persian Slaves, Populace of Moscow.
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Divisi:
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SSAATTBB.
Double Choruses + Children - Soprani chorus
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Opera:
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Koanga
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Orig. Language:
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English
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Composer
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F. Delius
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Librettist
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C.F. Keary
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Description:
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Opera in Prologue, III Acts and Epilogue
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Notes:
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Text after George Washington Cable’s “The
Grandissime”
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Time
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Late 18th Century
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Place:
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A plantation on the Mississippi
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Premiere Date:
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March 30, 1904
& 1935.
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Premiere Location:
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Elberfeld (Municipal Theatre) (1904)
London.
Covent Garden, 1935.
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Koanga,
African Prince, Voodoo priest, slave
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Baritone
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L
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Palmyra,
a Mulatto
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Soprano
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L
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Don
Jose Martinez, owner of the plantation
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Bass
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F
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Simon
Perez, the Foreman
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Tenor
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F
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Clotilda,
Don Jose’s wife
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Contralto
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S
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Uncle
Joe, an old servant
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Bass
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S
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Rangwan,
Voodoo priest
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Bass
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S
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8 Planters’
Daughters
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Renee
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Soprano
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F
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Helene
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Soprano
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B
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Jeanne
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Soprano
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B
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Marie
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Soprano
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B
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Aurore
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Mezzo-Soprano
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B
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Hortense
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Mezzo-Soprano
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B
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Olive
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Mezzo-Soprano
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B
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Paulette
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Mezzo-Soprano
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B
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Negro
I
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Tenor
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B
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Negro
II
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Baritone
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B
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Male
Quartet
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Tenor, Tenor, Baritone, Bass
(Score indicates that these voices step out
from the chorus)
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CB
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Minimum Chorus:
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20
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Divisi:
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