On 11th of October 1997 and under the presidency of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, the Teatro Real reopened as an opera house. Since then, the artistic project of the Teatro Real has made it one of the great international centres of operatic activity and an undisputed landmark among Spanish cultural institutions. Its artistic programme nurtures both the traditional lyrical repertoire as well as contemporary works, incorporating twentieth-century and avant-garde music. It believes strongly in offering the public a place where they can discover the best artists and creators of the moment.
2006-2007 Season
The centrepiece of the season, among 9 new productions, is the world premiere of 'El viaje a Simorgh', an opera by José María Sánchez-Verdú, with a libretto by Juan Goytisolo. A cycle dedicated to the work of Vicente Soler starts, with the first modern staging of 'Il tutore burlato'.
Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss
Production by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Christof Loy
27 September to 15 October 2006
The love of the oranges, by Sergei Prokofiev
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Music director: Tugan Sokhiev
Stage director: Philippe Calvario
31 October to 16 November 2006
Les contes d’Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the New Israeli Opera ofTel Aviv and the Teatro Regio de Torino
Music director: Emmanuel Villaume
Stage director: Nicolas Joël
4 to 23 December 2006
Wozzeck, by Alban Berg
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Josep Pons
Stage director: Calixto Bieito
12 to 28 January 2007
Cavalleria Rusticana, by Pietro Mascagni
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
17 February to 8 March 2007
I Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
17 February to 8 March 2007
La pietra del Paragone, by Gioachino Rossini
Production by Rossini Festival of Pesaro
Music director: Alberto Zedda
Stage director: Pier Luigi Pizzi
25 March to 16 April 2007
El viaje a Simorgh, by José María Sánchez-Verdú
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Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Frederic Amat
4 to 17 May 2007
Il trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Music director: Nicola Luisotti
Stage director: Elijah Moshinsky
7 to 29 June 2007
Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Plácido Domingo
Stage director: Mario Gas
14 to 27 July 2007
2005-2006 Season
Antonio Moral succeeds Emilio Sagi as Artistic Director of the Teatro Real. The world premiere of 'Dulcinea', an opera by Mauricio Sotelo based on 'Don Quijot', Cervantes' masterpiece, is one of the highlights of the season.
Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Víctor Pablo Pérez
Stage director: Lluis Pasqual
30 September to 15 October of 2005
From the House of the Dead (Z mrtvého domu), by Leoš Janáček
Production by the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Opéra national de Paris, based on an original productio by the Salzburg Festival
Music director: Marc Albrecht
Stage director: Klaus Michael Grüber
30 October to 15 November 2005
Luisa Miller, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the San Francisco Opera
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Francesca Zambello
1 to 23 December 2005
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Benjamin Britten
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Ion Marin Armin Jordan
Stage director: Pier Luigi Pizzi
11 to 26 January 2006
’elisir d’amore, by Gaetano Donizetti
Production by the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona.
Music director: Maurizio Benini
Stage director: Mario Gas Hugo de Ana
12 to 28 February 2006
La bohème, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: David Giménez, Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
4 March to 3 April 2006
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Music director: Christoph König
Stage director: Jérome Deschamps, Macha Makeïeff
8 to 23 May 2006
Dulcinea, by Mauricio Sotelo
World première
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Joan Cerveró
Stage director: Gustavo Tambascio, Xavier Albertí
18 to 22 May 2006
Dialogues des Carmélites, by Francis Poulenc
Production by the Nederlandse Opera of Amsterdam
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Robert Carsen
8 to 30 June 2006
Luisa Fernanda, by Federico Moreno Torroba
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Washington Opera and the Los Angeles Opera
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
26 June to 19 July 2006
La Dolores, by Tomás Bretón
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Antoni Ros Marbà
Stage director: José Carlos Plaza
29 September to 15 October 2004
Macbeth, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Asociación Bilbaina de Amigos de la Ópera
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Gerardo Vera
2 to 21 November 2004
L’Upupa, by Hans Werner Henze
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Salzburg Festival and the Deutsche Oper
Music director: Paul Daniel
Stage director: Dieter Dorn
7 to 23 December 2004
Il barbiere di Siviglia, by ioachino Rossini
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Teatro São Carlos of Lisbon
Music director: Gianluigi Gelmetti
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
13 to 29 January 2005
Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Götz Friedrich
16 February to 7 March 2005
La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Asociación Bilbaina de Amigos de la Ópera and in collaboration with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Die Frau ohne Schatten, by Richard Strauss
Production by the Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich
Music director: Pinchas Steinberg
Stage director: Ennosuke Ichikawa
15 April to 9 May 2005
Don Carlo, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Hugo de Ana
29 May to 17 June 2005
Die Zauberflöte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Ruhr Triennale and the Opéra national de Paris
Music director: Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rhorer
Stage director: Alex Ollé, Carlos Padrissa, La Fura dels Baus
5 to 18 July 2005
2003-2004 Season
Jesús López Cobos becomes Musical Director of the Teatro Real. 'Osud', directed by Robert Wilson is one of the highlights of the season, along with the closure of the Ring Cycle, with 'Sigfried' and 'Götterdämmerung'.
La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Asociación Bilbaina de Amigos de la Ópera and in collaboration with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Jesús López Cobo
Stage director: Pier Luigi Pizzi
1 to 15 October 2003
Osud, by Leoš Janáček
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Prague National Theatre
Music director: José Ramón Encinar
Stage director: Robert Wilson
1 to 19 November 2003
Siegfried, by Richard Wagner
Production by Teatro Real incoproduction with the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden Semperorer
Music director: Peter Schneider
Stage director: Willy Decker
2 to 23 December 2003
Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by Teatro Real en coproducción con la Asociación Bilbaína de Amigos de la Ópera
Music director: Maurizio Benini
Stage director: Nuria Espert
14 to 31 January 2004
10 to 16 July 2004
Götterdämmerung, by Richard Wagner
Production by Teatro Real incoproduction with the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden Semperorer
Music director: Peter Schneider
Stage director: Willy Decker
20 February to 16 March 2004
Don Pasquale, by Gaetano Donizetti
Production by the Opernhaus Zurich
Music director: Giuliano Carella
Stage director: Grischa Asagaroff
17 to March 2004
Semiramide, by Gioachino Rossini
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Rossini Festival of Pesaro, the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona and the Teatro Regio of Torino
Music director: Alberto Zedda
Stage director: Dieter Kaegi
11 to 30 April 2004
Il viaggio a Reims, by Gioachino Rossini
Production by the Teatro Real and the Rossini Festival of Pesaro
Music director: Alberto Zedda
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
12 to 16 April 2004
La dama de picas, by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
Production by the Los Angeles Music Center Opera
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Gottfried Pilz
15 May to 11 June 2004
2002-2003 Season
The sixth season hosted the world premiere of the staged version of 'Merlin', by Isaac Albéniz, in the Teatro Real's first large-scale audiovisual project, including worldwide streaming. The Ring Cycle continues with 'Die Walküre'.
Simon Boccanegra, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Gabriele Ferro
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
1 to 15 October 2002
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, by Georg Friedrich Händel
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Teatro Comunale de Bolonia
Music director: Rinaldo Alessandrini
Stage director: Luca Ronconi
1 to 28 November 2002
, by Georges Bizet
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Alain Lombard
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
5 to 21 December 2002
e nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Antoni Ros Marbà
Stage director: Marco Arturo Marelli
12 to 23 January 2003
Faust, by Charles Gounod
Production by the Opernhaus Zurich
Music director: Alain Guingal
Stage director: Götz Friedrich
7 to 18 February 2003
Die Walküre, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden Semperoper
Music director: Peter Schneider
Stage director: Willy Decker
5 to 23 March 2003
La favorite, by Gaetano Donizetti
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatro del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Roberto Rizzi
Stage director: Ariel García Valdés
13 April to 9 May 2003
Merlin, by Isaac Albéniz
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: José de Eusebio
Stage director: John Dew
28 May to 30 June 2003
Der fliegende Holländer, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Harry Kupfer
7 to 15 July 2003
2001-2002 Season
García Navarro passes away, and Emilio Sagi succeeds him as Artistic Director of the Teatro Real. Great classics of the 19th and 20th centuries form the programme of the season, with the premiere of Babel 46, Xavier Montsalvatge. Peter Schneider and Willy Decker's Ring Cycle starts, produced by the Teatro Real and Semperoper Dresden.
Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Music director: Daniel Lipton
Stage director: Graham Vick
1 to 28 October 2001
Lucia di Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti
Production by the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in coproduction with the Grand Théâtre of Geneva
Music director: Friedrich Haider
Stage director: Graham Vick
21 October to 11 November 2001
Così fan tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Jesús López Cobos
Stage director: Josep Maria Flotats
9 to 26 December 2001
Pelléas et Mélisande, by Claude Debussy
Production by the Grand Théâtre of Geneva
Music director: Armin Jordan
Stage director: Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser
12 to 26 January 2002
Falstaff, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro alla Scala of Milan
Music director: Frédéric Chaslin
Stage director: Giorgio Strehler
14 February to 6 March 2002
Babel 46, by Xavier Montsalvatge
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Antoni Ros Marbà
Stage director: Jorge Lavelli
25 March to 11 April 2002
L’enfant et les sortilèges, by Maurice Ravel
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Antoni Ros Marbà
Stage director: Jorge Lavelli
25 March to 11 April 2002
Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: José Collado
Stage director: Mario Gas
27 April to 12 May 2002
Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Dresden Semperoper
Music director: Peter Schneider
Stage director: Willy Decker
28 May to 15 June 2002
Tannhäuser, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Harry Kupfer
23 June to 4 July 2002
Elektra, by Richard Strauss
Production by Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Dieter Dorn
27 June to 5 July 2002
2000-2001 Season
The forgotten repertoire and a world premiere meet again in the 4th season of the Teatro Real. Two playwrights, Calderón de la Barca and Francisco Nieva, provide the librettos for the operas by Juan Hidalgo ('Celos aún del aire matan'), and Luis de Pablo ('La señorita Cristina').
Celos aún del aire matan, by Juan Hidalgo
Production by Teatro Real in collaboration with SGAE-Fundación Autor and the Sociedad estatal ‘España Nuevo Milenio’
Music director: Jean-Claude Malgoire
Stage director: Pier Luigi Pizzi
4 to 14 October 2000
Manon, by Jules Massenet
Production by Teatro alla Scala of Milan and the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse
Music director: Vjekoslav Sutej
Stage director: Nicolas Joël
29 Octubre to 16 November 2000
Il trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Elijah Moshinsky
8 to 26 December 2000
Die Zauberflöte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Wiener Staatsoper in collaboration with the Teatro Real
Music director: Frans Brüggen
Stage director: Marco Arturo Marelli
11 to 22 January 2001
La señorita Cristina, by Luis de Pablo
World première
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: José Ramón Encinar
Stage director: Francisco Nieva
10 to 18 February 2001
Parsifal, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, based on an original production by the Nederlandse Opera of Amsterdam
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Klaus-Michael Grüber
3 to 15 March 2001
Don Carlo, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa and the Teatro Comunale of Florence
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Hugo de Ana
30 March to 16 April 2001
War and Peace, by Sergei Prokofiev
Production by the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg and the Metropolitan Opera
Music director: Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda
Stage director: Andreij Konchalovsky
23 April to 3 May 2001
La Cenerentola, by Gioachino Rossini
Production by the Opéra national de Paris
Music director: Carlo Rizzi
Stage director: Jérôme Savary
11 to 24 June 2001
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Harry Kupfer
22 to 30 June 2001
, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Production by the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Stéphane Braunschweig
27 June to 3 July 2001
La vida breve, by Manuel de Falla
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Pedro Halffter
Stage director: Francisco Nieva
26 July to 5 August 2001
1999-2000 Season
The third season of the Teatro Real is a search for the Spanish opera, with the revival of 'Margarita la tornera', originally written for the Teatro Real, and the world premiere of 'Don Quijote', by Cristóbal Halffter.
L’Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi
Production by the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
Music director: Jordi Savall
Stage director: Gilbert Deflo
2 to 13 October 1999
Otello, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Elijah Moshinsky
29 October to 19 November 1999
Margarita la tornera, by Ruperto Chapí
Production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with SGAE-Fundación Autor and Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
11 to 19 December 1999
La bohème, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Arthur Fagen
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
29 December 1999 to 2 January 2000
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Dmitri Shostakovich
Production by Starsound Limited for the Teatro Real, in collaboration with the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples
Music director: Mstislav Rostropovich
Stage director: Sergio Renán
25 January to 4 February 2000
Don Quijote,, by Cristóbal Halffter
World première
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Pedro Halffter
Stage director: Herbert Wernicke
23 February to 7 March 2000
Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss
Production by the English National Opera, Los Angeles Music Centre Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Jonathan Miller
21 March to 4 April 2000
La sonnambula, by Vincenzo Bellini
Production by the Teatro Regio of Torino
Music director: Richard Bonynge, Roberto Tolomelli
Stage director: Mauro Avogadro
14 to 30 April 2000
La forza del destino, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Opéra de Marseille, Opéra royale de Wallonie, Opéra d'Avignon et des pays de Vaucluse, and the Opéra de Vichy
Music director: Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
Stage director: Bernard Broca
12 to 28 May 2000
Tristan und Isolde, by Richard Wagner
Production by Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Harry Kupfer
17 to 28 June 2000
Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Music director: Daniel Barenboim
Stage director: Thomas Langhoff
20 to 28 June 2000
Ernani, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: José Carlos Plaza
13 to 30 July 2000
1998-1999 Season
From the peak of Mozart's classicism to the classics of the 20th Century (Die Bassariden), with a prelude of the 21st century with the premiere of Philip Glass' 'Corvo branco'.
Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Hugo de Ana
2 to 17 October 1998
Elektra, by Richard Strauss
Production by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Henning Brockhaus
3 to 21 November 1998
Corvo branco, by Philip Glass
Production by Teatro Real in coproduction with the Festival dos cem días (Expo-98)
Music director: Günter Neuhold
Stage director: Robert Wilson
28 November to 5 December 1998
La bohème, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Silvio Varviso
Stage director: Giancarlo del Monaco
19 December 1998 to 7 January 1999
Tannhäuser, by Richard Wagner
Production by the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla
Music director: Hans Wallat
Stage director: Werner Herzog
4 to 20 February 1999
La clemenza di Tito, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production of the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Landestheater of Salzburg and the Opernhaus Halle
Music director: Ralf Weikert
Stage director: Pet Halmen
12 to 24 March 1999
Carmen, by Georges Bizet
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Emilio Sagi
6 to 24 April 1999
Las golondrinas, by José María Usandizaga
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Odón Alonso
Stage director: José Carlos Plaza
15 to 24 May 1999
The Bassarids, by Hans Werner Henze
Production by the Staatsoper Dresden Semperoper
Music director: rturo Tamayo
Stage director: Gerd Heinz
3 to 14 June 1999
Samson et Dalila, by Camille Saint-Saëns
Production by the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Beni Montresor
28 June to 20 July 1999
Werther, by Jules Massenet
Production by the Thèàtre du Capitole de Toulouse and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera
Music director: Julius Rudel
Stage director: Nicolas Joël
14 to 29 July 1999
1997-1998 Season
The Teatro Real reopens as an opera theatre, after 7 years of remodelling. 72 years after its last opera performance, in 1925, the Real begins its first season with García Navarro as Artistic Director, and the world premiere of 'Divinas Palabras'.
La vida breve, by Manuel de Falla
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Francisco Nieva
11 to 26 October 1997
Divinas Palabras, by Antón García Abril
World première
Production by the Teatro Real
Music director: Antoni Ros-Marbà
Stage director: José Carlos Plaza
18 to 20 October 1997
Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten
Production by the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie/De Munt of Brussels
Music director:Antonio Pappano
Stage director: Willy Decker
15 to 23 November 1997
Porgy & Bess, by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Production by the Houston Grand Opera
Music director: Chris Nance
Stage director: Tazewell Thompson
19 December 1997 to 3 January 1998
Le nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production by the Nederlandse Opera of Amsterdam
Music director: Gianandrea Noseda
Stage director: Jürgen Flimm
24 January to 1 February 1998
Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini
Production by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Teatro Real
Music director: Wladimir Jurowski
Stage director: Jeremy Sutcliffe, André Serban
14 to 26 February 1998
Un ballo in maschera, by Giuseppe Verdi
Production by the Opéra national de Paris
Music director: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Stage director: Nicolas Joël
19 to 31 March 1998
The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody lišky bystroušky), by Leoš Janáček
Production by the Théâtre du Châtelet of Paris and the Teatro Real
Music director: Mark Stringer
Stage director: Nicholas Hytner
15 to 23 April 1998
L’elisir d’amore, by Gaetano Donizetti
Production by Opera of Geneva, Los Angeles Music Center Opera and the Teatro Real
Music director: Paolo Olmi
Stage director: Stephen Lawless
20 to 30 May 1998
Curator: Jorge Féliz
Photography:
Javier del Real
EFE/M.H. de León
EFE/Ángel Díaz
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