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| A clearer picture began to emerge on Wednesday of the 150 people believed to have lost their lives in the crash of a Germanwings jet in southern France. | A clearer picture began to emerge on Wednesday of the 150 people believed to have lost their lives in the crash of a Germanwings jet in southern France. |
| According to the airline, at least 67 Germans, including two infants, were on the Airbus A320 that crashed on Tuesday on its way to Düsseldorf, Germany, from Barcelona, Spain. Many Spaniards were also aboard. The passengers included two opera singers, as well as a class of 16 German high school students returning from a study program near Barcelona, along with their two teachers. | According to the airline, at least 67 Germans, including two infants, were on the Airbus A320 that crashed on Tuesday on its way to Düsseldorf, Germany, from Barcelona, Spain. Many Spaniards were also aboard. The passengers included two opera singers, as well as a class of 16 German high school students returning from a study program near Barcelona, along with their two teachers. |
| Germanwings was working to notify families before releasing further information about the 144 passengers and six crew members who were on the plane. But some countries whose citizens were aboard began to confirm their identities, and details also emerged from other sources. | Germanwings was working to notify families before releasing further information about the 144 passengers and six crew members who were on the plane. But some countries whose citizens were aboard began to confirm their identities, and details also emerged from other sources. |
| In Barcelona, the Liceu opera house planned to observe two minutes of silence on Wednesday for the opera singers lost in the crash — Oleg Bryjak, a bass baritone, and Maria Radner, a contralto — according to Joan Corbera, a spokesman for the opera house. The two had performed there on Saturday in Wagner’s “Siegfried,” with Ms. Radner singing the role of Erda and Mr. Bryjak the role of Alberich. Ms. Radner’s husband and baby were also on the plane. | |
| Mr. Bryjak, a 54-year-old native of Kazakhstan, had been a member of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, since the 1996-97 season. “We have lost Oleg Bryjak, a great artist and a great man,” the German opera house’s general director, Christoph Meyer, said in a written statement. “We are stunned.” | Mr. Bryjak, a 54-year-old native of Kazakhstan, had been a member of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, since the 1996-97 season. “We have lost Oleg Bryjak, a great artist and a great man,” the German opera house’s general director, Christoph Meyer, said in a written statement. “We are stunned.” |
| In a 2014 interview with Deutsche Welle, Mr. Bryjak explained that he had grown up in Kazakhstan because his Ukrainian-born father had been sent into forced exile there by the Soviets, after having done forced labor in Germany as a teenager in World War II. | |
| “The good part of the story is that I grew up with the children of other prisoners,” Mr. Bryjak told Deutsche Welle. “Russians and Ukrainians, Latvians and Georgians, Lithuanians and Kazakhs. We were absolutely international. So it would be impossible for me to say that one nation is better than another.” | |
| The baritone sang at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival last year and was expected to perform there again in August. | |
| Ms. Radner, a rising star of Wagnerian opera, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in “Götterdämmerung” in January 2012, and at La Scala in Milan in “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” in March 2012. She had been expected to perform at Bayreuth this summer in “Das Rheingold” and “Götterdämmerung,” according to a biography on her management company’s website. | |
| Ariadna Falguera, the wife of a prominent Catalan politician, was also believed to be a passenger. Her husband, Lluís Juncà, is the chief of cabinet of Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra Republicana, a party that has been leading the movement for Catalonia to secede from Spain. Ms. Falguera worked for a fashion company and was traveling to Germany for business. | |
| Two passengers onboard had just married on Saturday, according to Juan José Maestre, a Town Hall official at La Llagosta, outside Barcelona. Asmae Ouahhoud el Allaoui, a 23-year-old Spaniard, was moving to Düsseldorf to live with her Moroccan husband, who was also on the flight but whose name has not been disclosed. | |
| Another person from La Llagosta, Francisco Javier Goñalons, 42, was on the flight, according to the Town Hall. He had recently lived in another Catalan town, Badalona. | |
| Two Australians were aboard the flight. They were identified on Wednesday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as Carol Friday, a 68-year-old registered nurse, and her son Greig Friday, 29, a mechanical engineer, both from the state of Victoria. Mr. Friday had hoped to start work soon as an English teacher in France, and the two were spending a few weeks together in Europe beforehand, their family said in a statement. “They were both extraordinary and exceptional people,” the statement said. | Two Australians were aboard the flight. They were identified on Wednesday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as Carol Friday, a 68-year-old registered nurse, and her son Greig Friday, 29, a mechanical engineer, both from the state of Victoria. Mr. Friday had hoped to start work soon as an English teacher in France, and the two were spending a few weeks together in Europe beforehand, their family said in a statement. “They were both extraordinary and exceptional people,” the statement said. |
| Two Japanese passengers were also aboard, identified by the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo as Satoshi Nagata, a man in his 60s, and Junichi Sato, a man in his 40s. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said the men’s families had not given the government permission to release more information about them. | Two Japanese passengers were also aboard, identified by the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo as Satoshi Nagata, a man in his 60s, and Junichi Sato, a man in his 40s. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said the men’s families had not given the government permission to release more information about them. |
| Two Colombians were killed in the crash, that country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. María del Pilar Tejada, 33, was studying economics in Germany and was returning from a visit to see her husband in Barcelona, according to Colombian news reports. Luis Eduardo Medrano, 36, had worked in Equatorial Guinea as an architect since 2009, according to a statement from Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, the Colombian university he attended. | Two Colombians were killed in the crash, that country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. María del Pilar Tejada, 33, was studying economics in Germany and was returning from a visit to see her husband in Barcelona, according to Colombian news reports. Luis Eduardo Medrano, 36, had worked in Equatorial Guinea as an architect since 2009, according to a statement from Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, the Colombian university he attended. |
| The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said in a statement that it was likely that some British nationals had been on the flight. “I don’t want to speculate on numbers of British nationals involved until we have completed our checks on all the passenger information,” he said. “However, based on the information available to us, it is sadly likely that there were some British nationals on board the flight.’’ | |
| At least one victim was from Belgium, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Twitter, but it released no names. Mexico said as many as three of its citizens may have been aboard, but it cautioned that the information had not been confirmed. | |
| Two employees of Delphi, an American automotive company, and at least one employee of Bayer, a German chemical company, were among the passengers, according to Spanish news reports. | Two employees of Delphi, an American automotive company, and at least one employee of Bayer, a German chemical company, were among the passengers, according to Spanish news reports. |