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...Mary Looking through an open door in Crown Princess Mary’s study at Frederik VIII’s Palace, the view to the adjacent salons is trippy: wild walls of colour and texture by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Kaspar...
...The setting is contemporary, with Kaspar an embittered war veteran. But that mild updating doesn’t always jibe with the irreducible romanticism of this folk-tale opera....
...The nemesis figure of Kaspar was incarnated with force by Vladimir Baykov....
...The Zytglogge is open to visitors, who invariably look up from their iPhones to gasp at the still-working metal clockwork mechanism installed by Kaspar Brunner in 1527....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...Old Kaspar’s work presumably consisted of providing food, fuel and shelter for his family....
...UBS chairman Kaspar Villiger was reported in a Swiss newspaper as saying that the bank was still needed its investment banking arm, and was not considering a sale....
...On Thursday, Kaspar Villiger moved to draw a line under the bank’s two-year travails....
...Other chief executives, including Barclays’ John Varley, Stephen Hester at Royal Bank of Scotland and Eric Daniels at Lloyds, decided to waive their right to bonuses....
...Michael Morpurgo is co-editor of ‘The Birthday Book’ (Jonathan Cape) and author of ‘Kaspar’ (HarperCollins)...
...Aleksandra Kurzak’s Annchen sparkles, Roland Bracht’s Kuno sounds satiny, John Relyea’s Kaspar is deliciously deep and dangerous, the smaller roles are well-cast....
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