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...the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas Kaufmann...
...It features paintings, sculptures, textile installations and digital and video pieces by artists from around the globe, including Brook Andrew, Sonia Boyce and Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe....
...Vincent Kaufmann, chief executive of Ethos Foundation, which represents shareholders owning about 5 per cent of Credit Suisse stock, said scaling back the investment bank was long overdue and mimicked UBS...
...Swiss proxy investment adviser Ethos Foundation, which represents Swiss pension funds that own about 5 per cent of the bank’s shares, welcomed the resignation, with its chief executive Vincent Kaufmann saying...
...Vincent Kaufmann, chief executive of Ethos, which represents 200 Swiss pension funds that own between 3 and 5 per cent of the lender, said his clients were “really angry”....
...“Investors are asking whether they were chasing revenues at the expense of risk management,” says Andrew Coombs, an analyst at Citigroup....
...The other singers, both excellent, were Andrew Rees as the traitor Melot and David Kravitz as Tristan’s loyal manservant Kurwenal....
...Andrew Hill's challenge With the season for holiday complaints upon us, I have written this week about the way companies now respond to grumbling consumers — particularly on social media....
...Sarah Connolly and Jonas Kaufmann both cancelled, as did at least one of their planned replacements....
...Jonas Kaufmann Schubert/Winterreise (Sony Classical)...
...Wagner Parsifal Jonas Kaufmann/Metropolitan Opera (Sony Classical)...
...Humperdinck Königskinder Jonas Kaufmann, Detlef Roth, Ofelia Sala (Accord) 3 CDs Marschner Der Vampyr Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Hawlata, Regina Klepper (Capriccio) 2 CDs...
...Jonas Kaufmann The Verdi Album (Sony Classical) Anna Netrebko Verdi (Deutsche Grammophon)...
...Her disc of violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Peter Eötvös eclipsed the claims of better-established artists such as Simon Rattle, András Schiff and Jonas Kaufmann....
...Wagner Die Walküre Nina Stemme, Anja Kampe, Jonas Kaufmann, René Pape (Mariinsky) 4 CDs Jonas Kaufmann Arias and Lieder by Wagner (Decca)...
...Puccini Tosca Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel (EMI Classics, DVD)...
...Carmen Magdalena Kozená and Jonas Kaufmann (EMI)...
...Citing Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann, he says “some singers are still capable of driving the box office in the right repertoire.”...
...Interest for opera fans lies primarily in Jonas Kaufmann’s Florestan: his aria, beginning on a thread of sound, is as much a meditation as a cry from the depths....
...There is no outstanding Otello today – everyone is waiting for Jonas Kaufmann to accept Plácido Domingo’s mantle – but Clifton Forbis sounded comfortably inside the role, his sturdy top compensating for...
...Jonas Kaufmann Verismo arias (Decca) Hot on the heels of Vittorio Grigolo’s debut disc comes the latest from Kaufmann, the world’s leading tenor....
...Kaufmann does. Everything is right – the heroic timbre, the musicianly refinements, the subtleties of his acting, not to mention gorgeous looks....
...It is outstanding on several fronts, not least Kaufmann’s swan knight and Harteros’s Elsa....
...No less notable was Jonas Kaufmann’s Bayreuth debut – the Lohengrin of one’s dreams, a fusion of Mozartian sensitivity, Italianate fluency and Germanic intelligence....
...Later diversifications included novel-writing – his first, Kid Andrew Cody and Julie Sparrow, was published in 1977 – and painting....
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