The Golden Ring [DVD Video]
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Composer: Richard WagnerConductor: Georg Solti
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vocals: Berit Lindholm
Vocals: Birgit Nilsson
Vocals: Brigitte Fassbaender
Vocals: Claudia Hellmann
Vocals: Eberhard W?chter
Vocals: George London
Vocals: Gerhard Stolze
Vocals: Gottlob Frick
Vocals: Hans Hotter
Vocals: Helen Watts
Vocals: Helga Dernesch
Vocals: Hetty Plumacher
Vocals: Ira Malaniuk
Vocals: Kirsten Flagstad
Vocals: Marilyn Tyler
Vocals: Oda Balsborg
Vocals: Set Svanholm
Vocals: Vera Little
Vocals: Vera Schlosser
Vocals: Waldemar Kmentt
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Decca
Movie Reviews of The Golden Ring [DVD Video]
Movie Review: The film that made me an operaphile
Summary: 5 Stars
When PBS aired this documentary in the 1960's, I was not only fascinated by the studio recording mechanics but AWED BY THAT MUSIC! I listened to both rock n' roll and classical music in that order; but this program marked a hinge moment in my life. To answer those criticisms that one must know the foreign language to appreciate the text of a particular opera, I knew just a handful of German words and nothing about the Niebelung myth. Yet, those grand, lush, motif-laden, and passionate sounds gave my teenage hormones a transcendent experience. Translation: I was blown away.
As corny as it may sound, I was hooked on Wagner from that presentation. I have a polite personality, but I remember persistently annoying my mother for a month's advance of my $3.00 per week allowance ($12.00) to purchase the monaural recording of Gotterdammerung. (Oh, my goodness, was I becoming Wagnerian in temperament?) That opera exposed me to the entire Ring, then to the opera canon, lieder, oratorios, instrumentalists, and other classical formats. Most fans ease into classical music, and especially opera, with Carmen or Don Giovanni. I charged into opera through one of its most complex works. Happily, this wonderful session is preserved on DVD.
Summary of The Golden Ring [DVD Video]
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 08/14/2007Art House & International DVD Video
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