East German Poster Database

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• Siegfried: Richard Wagner- Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki

  This poster is black with a collage of images in upper left corner, including a dragon, a man wearing a leopard skin and carrying a club, and an old woman in red with exaggerated reptilian eye superimposed. The word "Siegfried" is superimposed in yellow, with "ngen" letters in gray caps at the bottom. The poster is possibly only half or quarter of the original. The remaining text is in white at the bottom right. This poster advertises for one of Wagner's operas involving Siegfried... possibly the Death of Siegfried or Siegfried's Idyll.

• ...Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg/Richard Wagner/Die Walküre

  Poster background is collage of gradient color scale images, mostly statues and antique paintings. Superimposed in arc from center left to bottom right in yellow gothic script is title of performance, The Valkyrie from Wagner. Poster appears to be one half of two.

• Die Verkaufte Braut

  Poster is black with yellow column of people and scenes from the play, outlined in black. A rainbow is visible center left, and a woman with a colored garland is highlighted in white. Text in white at top, with theater information behind in same yellow. Advertises for "The Bartered Bride".

• Joseph Haydn: Apollo-Saal- Marionetten~Opera, Deutsch Staatsoper Berlin. Staatliches Puppentheater Neubrandenburg

  This poster is black with white text at the top and bottom. It depicts a white outline of Haydn, filled with a wood grain white on black pattern. In the center of the outline's head is a photograph of two wooden marionettes. This poster advertises for a Marionette Opera from Joseph Haydn.

• Der Holzgeschnitzte Prinz/Bartok/Der Narr/Prokofjew/Ballett/Komische Oper

  Poster is white with black border. Depicts a face in center wich is divided vertically; right half is a clown with white background, left half is a king with black shadow behind. Text in black top and bottom. Advertises for "The Woodchip Prince" from Bartok, and "The Fool" from Prokofjew; the former is a ballet the latter a comic opera.

• Die Hochzeit des Figaro- Komische Oper

  This poster features black clouds at top with a pyramid of black and white depictions of characters from the opera below. The prominent character (Figaro?) has a halo of white light behind his head, with white rays emanating out and down to edges of poster. Variously colored arrows also emerge from behind character's head and wrap around and through other characters. The text is in white italics at the top. This poster advertises for the opera from Mozart "The Marriage of Figaro".

• Götterdämmerung/Richard Wagner/Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki/Nibelu

  Poster advertises for a performance of Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods". Deicts earth as seen from space with a robed death figure sitting on its pole with a sickle and a city rising from the toher side. Winged demons in red float toward bottom center. Title of performance in yellow arc halfway circling the globe with remaining text at bottom in white and gray.

• Komische Oper/Cosi Fan Tutte von W.A. Mozart

  Poster is watermark depiction of two couples in period dress, perhaps 19th century. Left couple is facing the camera, right couple facing each other. Red grid superimposed with photograph underneath clear (not watermark). Text in white at bottom. Advertises for the comic opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" from W. A. Mozart.

• Bettel Student der Komische Oper

  Poster is blue with outline of a man smoking a pipe in white. Outline is filled with depiction of Renaissance-era man and woman with palms tough, seemingly about to kiss. Above title in white arc, with the same man depicted below only full depiction in black and white. Advertises for a performance of the comic opera, "Junk Student".

• Amphitryon/Musikalische Komödie von Rainer Kunad/Libretto von Ingo Zimmermann/Uraufführung/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  Poster is white with black text at center top. Depicts two halves of a nude female form, left in color, right in silhouette, with the negative space between them forming the shape of a candlestick. Poster advertises for the musical comedy "Amphitryon", from Rainer Kunda. Play's premiere.

• Rigoletto/Verdi/Komische Oper

  Poster is black with black and white drawing of a man with left blue eye and right yellow eye. Right side of man's face has been warped to resemble an animal's. White mask covers the lower portion of his face, but teeth and tongue are visible through slit. Text in white at the bottom. Advertises for Verdi's comic opera "Rigoletto".