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Cast
Birgit Nilsson | As: Herself - Singer (Brunhilde) | |
Wolfgang Windgassen | As: Himself - Singer (Siegfried) | |
Gottlob Frick | As: Himself - Singer (Hagen) | |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | As: Himself - Singer (Gunther) | |
Claire Watson | As: Herself - Singer (Gertrune) |
Storyline
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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Cast
Birgit Nilsson |
Herself - Singer (Brunhilde) |
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Wolfgang Windgassen |
Himself - Singer (Siegfried) |
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Gottlob Frick |
Himself - Singer (Hagen) |
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
Himself - Singer (Gunther) |
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Claire Watson |
Herself - Singer (Gertrune) |
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Georg Solti |
Himself - The Conductor |
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John Culshaw |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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Gordon Parry |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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James Brown |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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Christopher Raeburn |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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Jack Law |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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Erik Smith |
Himself - The Recording Team |
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Humphrey Burton |
Himself - Narrator |
Directed By
Humphrey Burton |
Director |
Writing Credits
Production Crew
John Drummond |
Associate Producer |
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Humphrey Burton |
Producer |
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Walter Klapper |
Associate Producer |
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Edited By
Inman Hunter |
Editor |
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Costume and Makeup
Sound
Norman Allen |
Sound Recordist |
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Visual Effects
Camera
Peter Sargent |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Other Crew
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