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The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

87 mins

Rating

7/10

Release Date

26 December 1965

Country

Austria

Cast

Birgit Nilsson

Birgit Nilsson

Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

Wolfgang Windgassen

Wolfgang Windgassen

Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

Gottlob Frick

Gottlob Frick

Himself - Singer (Hagen)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Himself - Singer (Gunther)

Claire Watson

Claire Watson

Herself - Singer (Gertrune)

Georg Solti

Georg Solti

Himself - The Conductor

John Culshaw

John Culshaw

Himself - The Recording Team

Gordon Parry

Gordon Parry

Himself - The Recording Team

James Brown

James Brown

Himself - The Recording Team

Christopher Raeburn

Christopher Raeburn

Himself - The Recording Team

Jack Law

Jack Law

Himself - The Recording Team

Erik Smith

Erik Smith

Himself - The Recording Team

Humphrey Burton

Humphrey Burton

Himself - Narrator

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