The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 26, 1965
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Humphrey Burton

The Golden Ring — Cast

B

Birgit Nilsson Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

W

Wolfgang Windgassen Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

G

Gottlob Frick Himself - Singer (Hagen) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Himself - Singer (Gunther)

C

Claire Watson Herself - Singer (Gertrune) Georg Solti Himself - The Conductor

J

John Culshaw Himself - The Recording Team

G

Gordon Parry Himself - The Recording Team