Carmen – Vintage Poster
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Carmen, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This 1936 silkscreen poster advertises a Los Angeles production of *Carmen*, Georges Bizet's opera, sponsored by the Federal Music Project. The opera is drawn from Prosper Mérimée's 1845 novella about a seductive cigarette factory worker and the soldier who falls for her, and Bizet's 1875 Paris premiere made it one of the most performed works in the repertory. During the Great Depression, the Federal Music Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, put musicians to work and brought low-cost concerts and operas to ordinary audiences. Its posters are a record of that effort to make classical music a public experience.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Mérimée Prosper 1803-1870. Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Operas & operettas--California--Los Angeles--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 989 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 766_Carmen_1936 |
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