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Lohengrin- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.

This poster has a greenish gray background with a narrow white frame. The title of the opera is the same color as the background and is made visible by a white outline. The center shows a man's head in color with a huge swan sitting on top. In the bottom right hand corner is an image of a sleeping woman on a piece of armor. This poster advertises for Wagner's "Lohengrin" Opera.

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.

Richard Wagner/Tannhäuser/Theater der Stadt Cottbus

Poster background is an abstract depiction of trees in blue and gray with text in gray at bottom. Advertises for Wagner's Opera Tannhäuser.

Richard Wagner/Tristan und Isolde/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

Poster is black with blue-gray etched close-up depiction of a flower with a skull in the center. Title and playwright at bottom. Advertises for Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde".

...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.

Palast der Republik Großer Saal/Berühmte Opernchöre/und Arien von Lortzing, Wagner, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Smetana u. a./Großes Rundfunkorchester Berlin Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin Dirigent: Robert Hanell/Gesangssolisten: Eva-Marilies Opitz,

Poster is black with irridescent silver text in varying sizes and fonts, generally getting smaller from top to bottom. Advertises for "Famous Opera Choruses" and arias from Lortzing, Wagner, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Smetana, and others.

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg- Ehrung 1983- Landestheater Dessau

This poster's background is an orange to blue gradient diagonally from the top left to the bottom right. The text at the top is in black type and black gothic print. It features a black and white Renaissance depiction of three period men discussing red sheet music. This poster advertises for Wagner's "The Master Singer from Nürnberg".

Städtische Theater Karl Marx Stadt/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Oper von Richard Wagner

Poster is blue with orange rectangle in center. Inside border is decorated with sponge-print outlines of a medieval city, with yellow and black shiel in center. Text in black at top with title in white Advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Master Singer from Nürnberg".

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg- Komische Oper

This poster is white with a painted depiction of a tree in the center against a blue background. The tree appears to have several houses or architectural structures built into the trunk, and appears fuller on the right than the left. The text is in blue at the bottom. Advertises for the opera by Wagner "The Master Singer of Nürnberg".

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.

Oper von Richard Wagner/Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Der fliegende Holländer

Poster is black with a large circle in center depicting a ship with mountainous region behind in blue and black. Text in gray at top and bottom hugging circle advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman". Note: Poster has tag on back with information regarding artist, theater, etc. from the "Hundred Best Posters of 1980".

Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung/Der Ring des Niebelungen/Richard Wagner/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

Poster is a an oil painting of a brown, gold and white vortex, with text superimposed in light brown at top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of Wagner's series of operas "The Ring of the Neiblungen".

Das Rheingold/Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend von Richard Wagner Regie: D. Rogge, Musikalische Leitung: J. Winkler, Ausstattung: M. L. Strandt

Poster is white with large black and white, high contrast photo of a crowd of people in a commercial urban space. Difficult to make out any detail of photograph. Text in black at top advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Rhein Gold", directed by D. Rogge.

Der Rin [?]/Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki/Richard Wagner/Das Rheingold

Poster is black with a collage of neon-colored images, including a green face with brown eyes, brighly colored butterfly, green urban architecture, red statue, gold mask, blue nude female form, and gray stone mask. "The Rhein Gold" superimposed in yellow from bottom left corner to center right. Remindant text at top in gray and white. "Der Rin" is probably the truncated title "Der Ring des Nibelungen", a series of operas of which Das Rheingold was the first of four. It is difficult to tell whether the poster was cut or meant to be displayed in a series so that the full title could be seen.

East German Poster Database