Costume design for Ringmaster, Prologue, in Lulu
Maker and role
Artist: Jocelyn Herbert, British, 1917-2003
Year
ca. 1977
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Ink, watercolor, and cut-paper
Measurements
16 1/2 x 11 1/2in (41.9 x 29.2cm)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2002.104.31
Object type
Department
Location
Theatre production
Opera by Alban Berg. Produced by the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1977.
Further information
The Ringmaster welcomes the audience to the opera as if it were a circus. He announces that they will see Lulu as her lovers do, as an animal to be tamed and confined. Himself one of Lulu's lovers, the Ringmaster acknowledges that his head is "between two predatory jaws."
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