Word: rheingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each night when the show ended, the screen quickly returned to TV reality. Scarcely had the voices of the world-juggling statesmen died away when, after station identification, viewers were treated to some such rousing chorus as "My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer! Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer...
...real jolt came with the Ring cycle. When Wotan appeared on another dimmed-down stage in Das Rheingold, the murmur went up: "He has no helmet!" Muttered one oldtimer: "The stage is so dark I can't even see if he has a beard." (He had.) Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Das Rheingold, with Hotter, Svanholm, Pechner...