Bard Music Festival
BMF Program Ten
The Selling of the Ring
August 22, 2009
7 pm Preconcert Talk: John Deathridge
8 pm Performance: Catherine Foster, soprano; James Johnson, bass-baritone; Gary Lehman, tenor; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others
Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Excerpts from Das Rheingold (1854), Die Walküre (1856), Siegfried (1871), and Götterdämmerung (1874)