The Golden Ring

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Birgit Nilsson

Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Wolfgang Windgassen

Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

Age : 60 | Popularity : 0%

Gottlob Frick

Himself - Singer (Hagen)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Himself - Singer (Gunther)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Claire Watson

Herself - Singer (Gertrune)

Age : 59 | Popularity : 0%

Georg Solti

Himself - The Conductor

Age : 84 | Popularity : 10%

John Culshaw

Himself - The Recording Team

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Gordon Parry

Himself - The Recording Team

Age : N/A | Popularity : 19%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Humphrey Burton
Camera	Director of Photography	Peter Sargent
Sound	Sound Recordist	Norman Allen
Editing	Editor	Inman Hunter
Production	Associate Producer	John Drummond Walter Klapper
	Producer	Humphrey Burton
Department	Role	Name

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