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The Magic Flute

Poster
1993 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Magic Flute (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Printing ink on paper
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
Accession number
S.2318-1994

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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