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Siegfried: Richard Wagner- Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki

Item

Identifier: PA-0776
Title: Siegfried: Richard Wagner- Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki
Creator: Henning
Organization: Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg--Performances--Germany (East)
Date Created: 1987
Extent: 81 x 57
Description: 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.
Subject: Opera; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Medium: Theater posters
Spatial Coverage: Magdeburg

Item sets: East German Posters