The Golden Ring (1965)

The Golden Ring (1965)

1965-12-26 Austria, United Kingdom 87 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.

Cast

Birgit Nilsson is Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)
Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)
Wolfgang Windgassen is Himself - Singer (Siegfried)
Himself - Singer (Siegfried)
Gottlob Frick is Himself - Singer (Hagen)
Himself - Singer (Hagen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is Himself - Singer (Gunther)
Himself - Singer (Gunther)
Claire Watson is Herself - Singer (Gertrune)
Herself - Singer (Gertrune)
Georg Solti is Himself - The Conductor
Himself - The Conductor
John Culshaw is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team
Gordon Parry is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team
James Brown is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team
Christopher Raeburn is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team
Jack Law is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team
Erik Smith is Himself - The Recording Team
Himself - The Recording Team

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