Music: Top of the Decade: Music

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> Nureyev and Fonteyn dance their first Giselle, Covent Garden, 1962.

> The première of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Coventry, England, 1962.

> The Bernstein-Zefffirelli production of Verdi's Falstaff with Baritone Geraint Evans, Metropolitan Opera, 1964.

> Maria Callas returns to the Met in Tosca, New York, 1965.

> London Records (English Decca) completes the world's first recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Georg Solti, 1965.

> The première of Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki's Si. Luke Passion, Germany, 1966.

> Vladimir Horowitz...

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