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for Best New Opera the same year, and
Tasmanian company Liminal Spaces won the Event category of Australia's Interior Design Excellence Awards for its conceptualisation of the production's design.
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Before The Flame Goes Out:Memorial to the Jewish
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Before The Flame Goes Out:Memorial to the Jewish
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