The making of the Ring : documentary with Friedelind Wagner, Wolfgang Wagner, Patrice Chéreau, Pierre Boulez, Brian Large, Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre filmed at Bayreuth / introduced by Friedelind Wagner ; narrated by George Grizzard ; written by John Ardoin.
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Ardoin, John, 1935-2001
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John Louis Ardoin was born on January 8, 1935 in Alexandria, Louisiana, to Louis and Ruth Herren Ardoin, and his family moved to Port Arthur, Texas, when he was three years old. Radio programs cultivated his early interest in opera, and he initially enrolled at what is now the University of North Texas before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. Ardoin earned a Bachelor of Arts in music theory from UT Austin, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma, and did postgrad...
Wagner, Friedelind, 1918-1991
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Friedelind Wagner was the granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. She won fame for her opposition to Nazism in spite of her English-born mother, Winifred, being a fanatic admirer of Adolf Hitler. Friedelind fled Germany in 1940, arriving in the United States in 1942. She published her autobiography in 1945. Her brother Wieland was a co-director of the Bayreuth Festival. From the description of Friedelind Wagner collection of correspondence, photographs, clippings and Bayreuth F...
Grizzard, George
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George Grizzard was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on April 1, 1928. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C., and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1949. Grizzard appeared in local amateur theatre during college and made his professional debut at Arena Stage in Washington in 1950, appearing in The Delectable Judge, The Taming of the Shrew, and Alice in Wonderland. In 1951, Grizzard went to New York, where he studied ...
