Salzburg Easter Festival
In 1967 Herbert von Karajan launched the Salzburg Easter Festival with a new staging of the Ring Cycle, casting Stewart as Wotan/Wanderer and Gunther during the festival’s first four seasons, and again as Wotan in a later revival of "Das Rheingold". Karajan recorded all four operas from the cycle with the Texas baritone, and "Time" Magazine acclaimed him "the Wotan of his generation."