Word: hrdlicka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers were in full and angry cry. Said the critic of Prace: "Even the première audience was often in doubt, and how much more in doubt will be our working people who go to the theater to enjoy themselves and be instructed." Nonsense, replied Director Bohumil Hrdlicka. He had simply been trying to infuse a little life and "socialist realism" into Mozart. For two more nights Hrdlicka and Conductor Jaroslav Kronbholc braved the rising storm. Then came the call from the Ministry of Culture, and Mozart departed from the boards of his beloved city...