* Götterdämmerung – Live 1942 ( 1942 ) Conductor: Karl Elmendorff Soloists: Camilla Kallab, Egmont Koch, Label: Music & Arts Program

* Götterdämmerung ( 1951 ) Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch, ( Testament Records, mono )

** Cord Garben ( producer ), James Levine ( conductor ), Hildegard Behrens, Reiner Goldberg, Matti Salminen, Hanna Schwarz, Cheryl Studer, Bernd Weikl, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Götterdämmerung

** Cord Garben ( producer ), James Levine ( conductor ), Hildegard Behrens, Reiner Goldberg, Matti Salminen, Hanna Schwarz, Cheryl Studer, Bernd Weikl, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Götterdämmerung

* Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, recorded 5 / 89, Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon

The COC's first performances in the new opera house were of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, with designs by Michael Levine and 4 different directors: Michael Levine ( Das Rheingold ), Atom Egoyan ( Die Walküre ), François Girard ( Siegfried ), and Tim Albery ( Götterdämmerung ).

* Wagner, Götterdämmerung – Second Norn ( Levine, 1989, DG )

Special Achievement – Wagner, Götterdämmerung, soloists ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Knapperstsbusch ( Testament )

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

In 1997, Congress asked the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( NICHD ) at the National Institutes of Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read.

Among TRP prominent members are Emma Bonino, former Italian Member of the European Parliament and former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Marco Pannella, former Italian Member of the European Parliament, Wei Jingsheng, President of the Chinese Overseas Coalition for Democracy, Enver Can, President of the Eastern Turkistan National Congress, Oumar Khambiev, Chechen Health Minister-elect ( 1997 ), Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights, Quan Nguyen, President of the International Committee for the Nonviolent in Vietnam, Kok Ksor, President of the Montagnard Foundation, Vanida Tephsouvan, Executive Director of the Lao Movement of Human Rights, Arben Xaferi, Chairman of the Albanian Democratic Party of Macedonia, Pandeli Majko, Minister of Defense of Albania, Prof. Arnold S. Trebach, President International Antiprohibitionist League, and David Borden, Executive Director of DRCNet.

In June 1997 British Aerospace Defence Managing Director John Weston commented " Europe ... is supporting three times the number of contractors on less than half the budget of the U. S .".

In 1996, Watson joined the World Bank as Senior Scientific adviser in the Environment Department, became Director of the Environment Department and Head of the Environment Sector Board in 1997 and is currently the Chief Scientist and Senior Adviser for Sustainable Development.

Samuel R. " Sandy " Berger, a longtime foreign policy adviser to Clinton who had been Lake's deputy since 1993, became National Security Adviser in March 1997, after Clinton nominated Lake to be Director of Central Intelligence ( Lake subsequently withdrew from the nomination ).

* Simon Johnson 1997 ( subsequently Assistant Master of the Music St Albans Abbey ; now Organist & Assistant Director of Music )

* Leon Panetta, current United States Secretary of Defense, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( 2009 – 2011 ), former Congressman ( 1977 – 1993 ) and White House Chief of Staff ( 1994 – 1997 ).

Thereafter he joined the London School of Economics – Centre for Economic Performance ( CEP ) as Director of Business Policy in 1991 and was appointed Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, in 1997.

Prior to becoming president in 1997, McAleese had also held the following positions: Director of Channel 4 Television, Director, Northern Ireland Electricity, Director, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust and Founding member of the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas.

Blix became Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency between 1981 and 1997 after Sigvard Eklund.

In recent years, more non-members of Her Majesty's Government have been permitted by the Prime Minister to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, notably Alastair Campbell in his capacity as Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003, and Jonathan Powell the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister under Tony Blair, with a distinctly separate role from the Cabinet Secretary / Head of the Civil Service.

Mariss Jansons succeeded Maazel as the PSO's Music Director from 1997 – 2004, and maintained the high artistic reputation of the orchestra.

The Regional Railways North East franchise was awarded by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to MTL with the franchise commencing on 2 March 1997.

The film received positive reviews from several film festivals, including a win for Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

His first major international recognition was at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where he won the Best Director prize for Happy Together ( 1997 ).

His 1997 film Happy Together was also successful internationally, winning him Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and surprising many, it was even popular with mainstream audiences in Hong Kong, despite its then-unusual focus on a gay love story and its having been largely improvised in Argentina, a landscape unfamiliar to Wong.

He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director — for Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ) and Milk ( 2008 ), both of which were also nominated for Best Picture — and won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ( 2003 ).

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

* 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

* 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1908 )

* December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

* Alfred Blatter ( 1997 ): Instrumentation and Orchestration ( Second edition ).

Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for expanding the Black-Scholes-Merton formula.

* The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997

* Press Release: The Sveriges Riksbank ( Bank of Sweden ) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1997

Merton and Scholes received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics ( The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ) for their work.

Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA ( 4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997 ), known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall.

* 1997: The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

In 1997, three other agricultural colleges affiliated with the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph: College d ' Alfred, a francophone college in the eastern part of the province at Alfred, Ontario ; Kemptville College, founded in 1917 and located at Kemptville, Ontario about 30 minutes south of Ottawa, and Ridgetown College at Ridgetown, Ontario founded in 1922 and located in southwestern Ontario near Chatham.

The township was formed on January 1, 1997, through the amalgamation of Alfred Township, Alfred Village, North Plantagenet Township, and Plantagenet Village.

* A Short History of Byzantium, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 ISBN 0-679-45088-2

* Alfred Laubereau, Head of the Experimental Physics Department, Munich Technical University, Professor, Bairoit University ( 1997 )

* Menezes, Alfred ; van Oorschot, Paul ; Vanstone, Scott ( 1997 ).

* Jackie Robinson, A Biography by Arnold Rampersad ( Alfred E. Knopf Inc., New York, 1997 ), ISBN 0-679-44495-5.

* October 6, 1997: Bega schoolgirl murders: New Zealand-born career criminal Lindsay Hoani Beckett and Victorian prison escapee Leslie Alfred Camilleri murdered 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins at Fiddler's Green Creek, Victoria, Australia.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

Although Barbara Gordon is his daughter in most continuities, in Batman & Robin ( 1997 ), Batgirl is characterized as Alfred Pennyworth's niece, Barbara Wilson.