Word: demas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meistersinger was the one deemed least adaptable to modern staging. But, for better or worse, Designer Wieland Wagner decided to refute the purists. Wieland only slightly distorted the interior of St. Catherine's Church in Act I. But the medieval Nuremberg of Act II was not only "dema-terialized," as traditionalists feared; it was totally atomized. There was not a trace of the famed gingerbread houses...