Welsh National Opera
Poster
1994 (made)
1994 (made)
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Poster advertising the Welsh National Opera Spring 1994 tour of Puccini's Turandot, Handel's Ariodante and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The tour visited the New Theatre, Cardiff; the Birmingham Hippodrome; the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton; and the Bristol Hippodrome.
Welsh National Opera (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru), now resident at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, was formed in the 1940s, and has developed a commitment to touring, community projects and education. This tour offered operas from three different centuries. Each opera featured strong roles for female singers, as Holly Warburton’s poster design suggests.
Welsh National Opera (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru), now resident at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, was formed in the 1940s, and has developed a commitment to touring, community projects and education. This tour offered operas from three different centuries. Each opera featured strong roles for female singers, as Holly Warburton’s poster design suggests.
Object details
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| Title | Welsh National Opera (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising the Welsh National Opera 1994 Spring tour of Turandot, Ariodante and Lucia di Lammermoor, visiting Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton and Bristol |
| Physical description | Pictorial and typographical poster advertising the Welsh National Opera 1994 tour of Turandot, Ariodante and Lucia di Lammermoor. Distressed photograph of a female face, superimposed with dark lines suggesting a bird's beak on the nose and a tear on the subject's right cheek. Additional 'rays' of light to lower left of the face suggest both feathers and a collar. Details of operas and venues at lower right. |
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| Summary | Poster advertising the Welsh National Opera Spring 1994 tour of Puccini's Turandot, Handel's Ariodante and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The tour visited the New Theatre, Cardiff; the Birmingham Hippodrome; the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton; and the Bristol Hippodrome. Welsh National Opera (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru), now resident at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, was formed in the 1940s, and has developed a commitment to touring, community projects and education. This tour offered operas from three different centuries. Each opera featured strong roles for female singers, as Holly Warburton’s poster design suggests. |
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| Accession number | S.3515-1995 |
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| Record created | July 30, 2010 |
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