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Sean Bianco's Opera Lounge is having "Ring Month" [View all]
That's the multi-opera extravaganza, "The Ring of the Nibelungs" by Wagner.
Sean Bianco's emails are sometimes flakey, so I missed the first in the cycle, Das Rheingold, last Saturday (though it's repeated throughout the week)
Edit to add details:
It will be live Ring from 1953 conducted by Clemens Kraus.
Not the beer:
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
I especially like the Twilight of the Gods, in which Valhalla goes up in flames.
I love being an iconoclast.
If you are unfamiliar with The Ring, Anna Russel's commentary is a blast.
Opera Lounge, https://live365.com/station/Bianco-s-Opera-Lounge-a27807
Check the schedule, You might catch Das Rheingold yet.
It's all about the greed.
Even the gods fail because of it.
Free at live365.
For you beer lovers:
The Rheingold beer song is The Estudiantina Waltz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estudiantina
The Estudiantina waltz (or Band of Students Waltz) is a musical arrangement, made in 1883, by Émile Waldteufel, his Opus 191, No. 4. Its melody was composed earlier in 1881 by Paul Lacôme, with lyrics by Julien de Lau Lusignan.
Waldteufel first adapted it to a two-piano version, and later to an orchestral version with which classical music audiences are familiar today. The main melody is universally recognized by Americans of a certain age as the Rheingold Beer jingle, with the words "My beer is Rheingold the dry beer. Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer. It's not bitter, not sweet, it's the extra dry treat—Won't you try extra dry Rheingold beer?". And in Germany the main melody is very popular because of a song called "Spaniens Gitarren" sung by the singers Cindy & Bert in 4/4 time which was a great hit for them in 1974.
Waldteufel first adapted it to a two-piano version, and later to an orchestral version with which classical music audiences are familiar today. The main melody is universally recognized by Americans of a certain age as the Rheingold Beer jingle, with the words "My beer is Rheingold the dry beer. Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer. It's not bitter, not sweet, it's the extra dry treat—Won't you try extra dry Rheingold beer?". And in Germany the main melody is very popular because of a song called "Spaniens Gitarren" sung by the singers Cindy & Bert in 4/4 time which was a great hit for them in 1974.
And rendered by The Golden Girls.
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