The Golden Ring

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 26, 1965

Original language

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

ORF,BBC

Cast

Birgit Nilsson,Wolfgang Windgassen,Gottlob Frick,Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,John Culshaw,Humphrey Burton,Claire Watson,James Brown,Gordon Parry,Jack Lawand 3 more

Director

Humphrey Burton

Producer

Humphrey Burton

Cinematography

Peter Sargent

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6864388