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Conceived by Paris Opéra General Director Rolf Liebermann, Don Giovanni is an attempt to go beyond the usual filmed operatic performances or made-for-TV studio productions. Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go-Between) takes his cast of international singing stars out on location to the waterways of Venice and to some stunning Palladian villas in the countryside around Vicenza. Never mind that Ingmar Bergman's 1975 version of Mozart's The Magic Flute showed what enchanting results a modest, studio-bound production could achieve. Never mind, too, that the locale of the Don Juan legend...
DIED. Ida P. Rolf, 82, messianic inventor of "rolfing," a method of manipulating the body that, according to her followers, enhances physical and emotional wellbeing; of complications following surgery; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Trained as a biochemist, she spent 40 years promoting her belief that everyone has "a relationship with gravity," which can be perfected by aligning "man's [energy] field with the field of the earth." A person is properly positioned, she taught, when his ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle are lined up vertically; that posture is achieved through a painful massage technique that is today administered...
...Paris, the opera world's most tantalizing other shoe has finally dropped. The Paris Opera presented the first-ever full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year quest. To Conductor Pierre Boulez, it was belated "justice to a work that has been mutilated." To the black-tie audience of statesmen, artistic leaders, 200 music critics and assorted opera buffs, it was a triumph and, to some, a perplexity...
...arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
...Mengele has found his way into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...