The Golden Ring
Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964 provides a thousand lessons in the art of working under pressure. For this classic documentary, The Golden Ring, a BBC camera crew eavesdropped as producer John Culshaw guided his engineering team through tricky technical maneuvers far removed from the relative ease of modern digital editing. What utter concentration and focus Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bring to their collective and individual singing! Solti, for his part, oozes energy and exactitude as he pleads for greater precision and frets over details in the car en route to the sessions.
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Birgit Nilsson
Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)
Also in
Elektra
Tristan und Isolde
Wolfgang Windgassen
Himself - Singer (Siegfried)
Also in
Schwarzwaldmädel
Die Fledermaus
Gottlob Frick
Himself - Singer (Hagen)
Also in
Mozart
Weber: Der Freischütz
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Himself - Singer (Gunther)
Also in
The Marriage of Figaro
Elektra
Claire Watson
Herself - Singer (Gertrune)
Georg Solti
Himself - The Conductor
Also in
Der Rosenkavalier
Monitor
John Culshaw
Himself - The Recording Team
Gordon Parry
Himself - The Recording Team
Also in
The Burning Fiery Furnace
James Brown
Himself - The Recording Team
Christopher Raeburn
Himself - The Recording Team
Jack Law
Himself - The Recording Team
Erik Smith
Himself - The Recording Team
Humphrey Burton Director · Peter Sargent Cinematographer Inman Hunter Editor
First release December 26, 1965 · Produced in Austria, United Kingdom · Production ORF
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BBC
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ORF
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Austria · United Kingdom
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English
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United Kingdom · December 26, 1965
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