The Golden Ring Cast and Crew

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

Release Date: Sunday, December 26 1965
59 years ago

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Cast

Birgit Nilsson. Birgit Nilsson was 47 in The Golden Ring as 'Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)'.

Birthday: Fri, May 17 1918 –
Died: Sun, Dec 25 2005

Wolfgang Windgassen. Wolfgang Windgassen was 51 in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - Singer (Siegfried)'.

Birthday: Fri, Jun 26 1914 –
Died: Sun, Sep 08 1974

Gottlob Frick. Gottlob Frick was 59 in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - Singer (Hagen)'.

Birthday: Sat, Jul 28 1906 –
Died: Thu, Aug 18 1994

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was 40 in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - Singer (Gunther)'.

Birthday: Thu, May 28 1925 –
Died: Fri, May 18 2012

Claire Watson. Claire Watson was 38 in The Golden Ring as 'Herself - Singer (Gertrune)'.

Birthday: Thu, Feb 03 1927 –
Died: Wed, Jul 16 1986

Georg Solti. Georg Solti was 53 in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Conductor'.

Birthday: Mon, Oct 21 1912 –
Died: Fri, Sep 05 1997

John Culshaw. John Culshaw was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Gordon Parry. Gordon Parry was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

James Brown. James Brown was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Christopher Raeburn. Christopher Raeburn was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Jack Law. Jack Law was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Erik Smith. Erik Smith was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - The Recording Team'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Humphrey Burton. Humphrey Burton was 34 in The Golden Ring as 'Himself - Narrator'.

Birthday: Sat, Mar 21 1931

Crew

Peter Sargent. Peter Sargent was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Director of Photography'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Humphrey Burton. Humphrey Burton was 34 in The Golden Ring as 'Producer, Director'

Birthday: Sat, Mar 21 1931

John Drummond. John Drummond was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Associate Producer'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Walter Klapper. Walter Klapper was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Associate Producer'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Inman Hunter. Inman Hunter was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Editor'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Norman Allen. Norman Allen was >> in The Golden Ring as 'Sound Recordist'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday