Word: rheinhardt
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This play, written by one of twentieth century Europe's best playwrights, is an excellent blend of German dramatic verse, pure theatre, and colorful pageantry, and should be well worth seeing even without a knowledge of German. Completed in 1911, it was first produced in Berlin by Max Rheinhardt, Germany's Cecil B. De Mille, with tremendous success. Its greatness as a play as well as the freshness and pertinence of what it had to say made it instantly popular, and it was subsequently performed every year on the steps of the Cathedral at Salzburg as a sort of dramatic...