Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIBERACE SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Candelabra Kid lights up the first show of his summer series with Guest Stars Jack Benny, the Bachelors, Rolf Harris and Susan Maughan...
...Peter Weiss' Marat/ Sade, the tear-jerking was decorous and concerned the plight of social revolution. One was expected to sob a little more audibly at Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, since, by the playwright's 15-watt intellectual lights, Pope Pius XII had it within his power to have prevented the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. Weiss rejoined the tear-bucket brigade with The Investigation, a static charade in which stand-up German tragedians testified that they were merely following orders in the massive extermination of the Jews...
...moment of wrath, Hamburg State Opera Impresario Rolf Liebermann once exclaimed: "It's the directors who ruin everything. It's never the composer, conductor or singers. The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job. Their only concern is their own vanity...
...number of practical difficulties. Only ecclesiastical courts have any authority to annul a marriage; religious education is mandatory in public schools, even for non-Catholic children; defrocked priests may be kept from holding positions in which they meet the public; and despite free-speech guarantees, an iconoclastic play like Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy may be barred from performance in Rome because it allegedly defames Pope Pius...
...Hamburg State Opera under the guidance of Impresario Rolf Liebermann has developed into one of the most creative companies in the world. An opera composer himself (Penelope, School for Wives), Liebermann commissions two new operas a year, lets producers and directors follow their own imaginative flights. Currently, two new productions - a brilliant revival of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's first major stage work in five years - are proving the wisdom of such artistic generosity...