Seven programmes looking back over the career of Sir
Georg Solti , now in his 80th year. Presented by Natalie Wheen in conversation with Sir Georg himself, and including interviews with Sir John Tooley , Sir Edward Downes , Josephine Veasey and members of the ROH
Orchestra, as well as material from the BBC archives.
2: The Covent Garden
Decade: 1961-1971
Extracts from Strauss's
Der Rosenkavalier,
Gluck's Orfeo edEuridice, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin , Strauss's Ekktra and Die Frau dime
Schatten, Verdi's Otello and Don Carlos (final act). Carlo Bergonzi , Renata Tebaldi , Grace Bumbry , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Nicolai Ghiaurov , Martti Talvela ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden