Poster Monday: La Traviata

Poster Monday: La Traviata

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Poster Monday: La Traviata

Welcome to this new edition of Poster Monday, now we are featuring a poster designed from our previously featured Carlo Fiore, a graphic designer from Italy who mainly designs posters for operas.

The poster we are featuring here today is “La Traviata” the most popular of Verdi’s operas and also one of his most distinct. The scale is far more intimate than the vast majority of his output with effective no grand historic or political elements. In the mid-nineteenth century Marie Duplessis inspired the pen of Alexandre Dumas son to give life to the character of Margarita Gautier in the novel “The lady of the camellias”, published in 1852. Dumas son wrote the work a few months after the death from tuberculosis of Marie. After the success of the work, Dumas himself decided to transform it into a play.

In 1856 Verdi composed the score for a new opera, which I call La Traviata, based on the play by Dumas Jr. With a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, that although in an incident did not have the expected success with time became a classic of all time

As you wait for the next Poster Monday spot, visit Carlo Fiore’s personal site and find out more about his work and style.
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Poster Monday: The Curse of Rigoletto

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Poster Monday: The Curse of Rigoletto

The second Poster Monday spot of the day belongs to William Haney, a graphic designer from New Jersey, United States for his poster The Curse of Rigoletto. This poster captures the mood of the tragic opera, both its characters and self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Curse of Rigoletto was created for the performance of Verdi’s’ opera Rigoletto by the Midatlantic Opera Company. The poster’s theme is built around a curse inflicted by Count Monterone’s on the tragic and insidious hunchback jester named Rigoletto. The imagery of the poster depicts the final scene, showing Rigoletto’s mistakenly slain daughter, Gilda, who was killed by an assassin. “I believe the contrast between the ugly, deformed body of Rigoletto and the beautiful, delicate figure of Gilda creates powerful visual tension” says William.

William Haney is a Professor teaching digital design and Illustration at Seton Hall University, South Orange N.J. He was born in Elizabeth N.J., and his parents enrolled him in various artistic training programs at a very young age.  William holds an M.FA. from University of Georgia and has been a Professor for 30 years in institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and The College of New Jersey.

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