From Then to Now
90 Years of Glyndebourne Posters
Continuing our 90th anniversary celebrations, Glyndebourne reflects on its rich history of collaboration and design, having worked with some of the leading artists and designers of their generation. From Then to Now: 90 Years of Glyndebourne Posters presents exciting, newly commissioned posters by 13 artists responding to our 2024 Festival, alongside rarely seen posters from our archive, spanning our inception in 1934 through to 2023.
Archive highlights include David Hockney’s 1995 Festival poster, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are / Higglety Pigglety Pop! design for the 1984 Glyndebourne Touring Opera and our stunning 75th Anniversary poster. Commissioned artists include: Amy Beager, Rana Begum, Pablo Bronstein, Morag Caister, Michael Craig-Martin, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, Chris Ofili, Vicken Parsons, Fiona Rae, Conrad Shawcross and Edmund de Waal. They have all responded to Glyndebourne’s Festival 2024 repertoire, each selecting one production to promote. As part of the exhibition, we have included a new poster of Howard Hodgkin’s 1998 Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book cover design, which marks Glyndebourne’s first commission of a contemporary artist for the Programme Book.
Each poster is a limited run of 150 and are printed on Monte Carlo 300gsm watercolour paper. All posters will be exclusively available from the Glyndebourne Shop.
90th anniversary posters
Amy Beager
Love Won’t Save us All (Tristan and Isolde)
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Rana Begum
No.1357
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
80 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Pablo Bronstein
Z is for…
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Morag Caister
Tristan
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Michael Craig-Martin
The Magic Flute
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
80 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Edmund de Waal
Giulio Cesare
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Antony Gormley
Test II, 2017
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
80 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Maggi Hambling
Dead Bull, 1987
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
80 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017)
Glyndebourne 1998 Festival Programme Book (detail)
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
80 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Chris Ofili
The Merry Widow poster with Afro Eclipse 1, 2003
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Vicken Parsons
Untitled (detail), 2017
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
60 x 80cm
Edition of 150
Fiona Rae
Gouache (colours fairer painted)
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150
Conrad Shawcross
Harmonic Carving (4)
2024
Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm
90 x 60cm
Edition of 150