W.P.A. Federal Music Project of New York City [presents] two chamber operas The roman – Antique Poster Print
![W.P.A. Federal Music Project of New York City [presents] two chamber operas The roman, 1936 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/39deb854c375-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with W.P.A. Federal Music Project of New York City [presents] two chamber operas The roman, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
W.P.A. Federal Music Project of New York City [presents] two chamber operas The roman
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Two short comic operas share the bill in this color silkscreen: Pergolesi's "La serva padrona," an intermezzo first staged in Naples in 1733 about a clever servant who maneuvers her employer into marriage, and "The Romance of Robot," which is less documented, so the poster is the best record of the pairing. The Federal Music Project of the Works Progress Administration presented the program in New York City, part of the New Deal effort to keep musicians working and bring small-scale opera to wider audiences. The poster was made by the Federal Art Project's silkscreen unit, which produced many inexpensive theatrical notices in the late 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 245 · Pergolesi Giovanni Battista 1710-1736. Vellucci Paul. Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Operas & operettas--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. Romances--1930-1950. Comedies--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,004 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 407_WPA_Federal_Music_Proje_1936 |
More from the WPA Posters collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free band concerts [at the] Bronx](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40a05ffa52df-400.webp)
![WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free band concerts [at the] Brook](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ce/ce489cf2b6ac-400.webp)
