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...The compelling libretto by Michael McQuilken (also the production’s director) is touching as it conveys the Man’s joy in keeping a diary and building a crib in his home workshop, but an unsettling dream...
...TV station PBS called it “the opera event of the year”: the world premiere production of The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel, in an adaptation by composer Kevin Puts and librettist...
...“The decoupling of Chinese bonds from the rest of the world could make them riskier in the long run,” warns Bo Zhuang, a Singapore-based sovereign analyst at Loomis Sayles....
...Satirical images by the artist George Grosz adumbrate Nazi horrors while lending their darkish yet vibrant colours to Michael Yeargan’s sets and Catherine Zuber’s costumes, arrestingly lit by Donald Holder...
...“The market is so illiquid and so erratic and so volatile,” Elaine Stokes, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, said. “It’s trading on every impulse and we can’t keep doing that.”...
...He started trading bonds while Gross was just a teenager in San Francisco, and since 1976 has been Loomis Sayles’s star bond fund manager....
...It’s a far cry from the returns on offer when junk-bond king Michael Milken made a fortune in the nascent market, demanding high interest rates for lending to lower quality companies....
...Now an interestingly innovative production of Verdi’s La traviata by Willy Decker — the one from Salzburg with the big clock — has been replaced by a production by Michael Mayer of surpassing gaudiness and...
...But rather than looking for “taste and culture”, Robert Carsen’s production — which has sets and costumes by Michael Levine, and was first seen at the Met in 1999-2000 and not since — unhelpfully takes aim...
...Elaine Stokes, a Boston-based portfolio manager with Loomis Sayles, said she did not pay much attention to social media feeds a few years ago....
...Andrew Stenson movingly charts Chen’s thwarted idealism, and compelling performances are delivered by Kathleen Kim (Josephine), Mika Shigematsu (Mother Chen) and Wayne Tigges (Sgt Marcum); Michael Christie...
...Union Square Advisors has hired Michael Meyer to lead the investment bank’s newly created capital structure advisory business....
...• Ashish Chugh has joined Loomis Sayles to run two new emerging market equity strategies for the $267bn US asset manager....
...In this vintage production, with monumental sets by John Conklin, spectacle counts far more than dramatic detail; Michael Stennett’s costumes alone would probably bankrupt a smaller opera company....
...Michael Volle’s superb Scarpia is a visual and vocal embodiment of evil. In a portrayal rich in powerful singing, his utterance of the single word “Ebbene?” (“Well?”)...
...Andrea DiCenso, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, is not a subscriber to the view that the drop in the oil price is sending a worrying signal....
...Jones sings exquisitely as the mother of Jobs’s child, and Michael Christie presides over an expertly executed performance. Santa Fe Opera has a hit on its hands. To August 25, santafeopera.org...
...Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors, says: “We had an incredibly rapid ascent in risk assets....
...But the direction is now unquestionably towards the Great Tapering,” warns Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...“As the volatility picks up and the indices plummet the rumours start to swell,” says Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors....
...Michael Buchanan, deputy chief investment officer of Western Asset Management said: “The successful implementation of several of these pro-growth policies is priced into markets....
...The company has suffered due to its higher than average fees, the mixed performance of its $41bn Global Bond fund run by star portfolio manager Michael Hasenstab, and the rise of passive investing, according...
...The plan is led by Michael Capasso, an impresario with hands-on experience who will run the new city opera, and Roy G Niederhoffer, the hedge-fund manager and former city opera board member....
...Vavrek’s text lacks the structural clarity of Dog Days and Michael McQuilken’s staging could be tighter, but the main fault lies with Du Yun’s music....
...Not only did it prove melodically ingratiating but it also alerted one to Michael Bergmann’s caustically witty libretto....
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