The Magic Flute

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V&A South Kensington
Theatre and Performance Galleries, 106B

Artist/Maker	React (designers) Huntley/Muir (illustrators)
Place of origin	Great Britain (printed)

Pictorial and typographic poster advertising Mozart's opera The Magic Flute at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, illustrated with a drawing of a face, half female, coloured blue, and half male, coloured yellow. The female half has a background representing the night sky, in dark purple with a crescent moon, with green grass below. The male half has a yellow background with a circular sun outlined in black.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Opera Posters Advertising
Object type	Poster
Title	The Magic Flute (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Printing ink on paper Printing Ink Paper Printing Offset Lithography
Brief description	Poster advertising Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1993
Physical description	Pictorial and typographic poster advertising Mozart's opera The Magic Flute at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, illustrated with a drawing of a face, half female, coloured blue, and half male, coloured yellow. The female half has a background representing the night sky, in dark purple with a crescent moon, with green grass below. The male half has a yellow background with a circular sun outlined in black.
Dimensions	Height: 42cm Width: 30cm
Gallery label	(2020) Gallery rotation, 2020 POSTER FOR THE MAGIC FLUTE 1993 In 1993, the Royal Opera House restaged Scottish Opera’s 1992 production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This poster draws on the vivid colours of the production design. The figure shows two sides of human nature and is a composite of the vengeful Queen of the Night and her rival, the wise and benevolent Sarastro. Designed by React, illustrated by Huntley/Muir Printing ink on paper Museum no. S.2318-1994
Object history	Associated Production: The Magic Flute. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Company: The Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 15.11.1993. Performance category: opera.
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.2318-1994

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Record created	July 23, 2010
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1162958/the-magic-flute-poster-react/

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