Playbill for "Antygona" Starring Helena Modjeska
ClassificationsPrinted Materials-programs & playbills
Subject
Madame Helena Modjeska Chlapowska
(1840 - 1909)
Date1903
Made AtKrakow, Poland
MediumPaper and ink
DimensionsApproximately: 25 × 9 in. (63.5 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LinePresented to Museum by Myrtle Blakeslee in memory of Felix Modjeska, grandson of Madame Helena Modjeska
Object number4936
DescriptionPlaybill for a performance of "Antygona" at Krakow's City Theater, Saturday April 25, 1903. The playbill states in Polish that the performance was the sixth guest appearance of Helena Modjeska at the theater, playing for the first time in "Antygona", the tragedy by Sophocles, translated by K. Morawskiego with music by Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, also in "Proteasilnos and Laodamia", a tragedy written by Stanislaw Wyspiamski. This appearance was reportedly the Modjeska's penultimate performance in Poland.On View
Not on view
November 21, 1889
late 19th Century
Madame Helena Modjeska Chlapowska
1891
April 1961
April 1961
Late 19th to Early 20th Century