jonas kaufmann's outstanding voice and acting ability often see him ranked up there with domingo.actually quite a burden that you have to carry. he had the whole package, which is the amazing thing. don't you have the whole package? yeah, maybe, but the thing is he was always my excuse when people would say, "but you have to concentrate on something — you have to become a donizetti or a bellini tenor, or you go for the verdi tenor, or you do the french repertoire. if you really want to go then do the german stuff, but don't do anything else. you have to specialise," and i kept saying, "n0, because placido didn't. and they say, "yeah, but this is placido. no, this is the exception. you can't do it." and he did, and that's why he was my role model. just what he and domingo can do with their voices, how they can colour, how they act with the voice — it's notjust a question of the body and psychology, but in the very colour, they show you the psychology. jonas has a natural ability to musicalise in a mediterranean way, and so his voice, though not losing its german heroic quality, mus