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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · The Ricordi House
Tosca — Adolfo Hohenstein, 1899
Adolfo Hohenstein · Ricordi opera poster, Tosca premiere, 1899
What it is
Hohenstein’s poster for the premiere run of Puccini’s Tosca, published by Ricordi.
Why it matters
Ricordi built its house style on Hohenstein’s theatrical, painterly hand — opera advertising treated with the same seriousness as the stage design itself.
What to notice
Tosca rendered mid-gesture, theatrical lighting painted directly into the lithograph.
An opera, sold like a painting.
Provenance
- School
- The Ricordi House (Various)
- Designer
- Adolfo Hohenstein
- Printer / house
- Ricordi
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- Ricordi opera poster, Tosca premiere, 1899
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17. Commons describes this scan as the title page of the first-edition piano score, not a separately printed wall poster — the same iconic Ricordi/Hohenstein image widely sold as a poster reproduction today. Registrar-awareness note only; does not block CLEAR.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
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