As part of the Gallery Met Banners project, the Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Anna Weyant to create a painting to celebrate the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Italian opera "La Forza del Destino." The work will be reproduced in the form of a sixty-foot banner installed on the façade of Lincoln Center in New York through March 31.
Weyant’s painting, which shares the same name as the opera, portrays Leonora, the tortured principal character, with closed eyes, bright red lips, and a single visible pearl earring. The words “Forza” and “Destino” are rendered in a vintage font with a scarlet hue and bloody “dripping” effect, evoking posters for classic Italian-made horror movies of the 1950s and ’60s: on.gagosian.com/3vnV9BB
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Artwork © Anna Weyant. Overture to Giuseppe Verdi's "La Forza del Destino," performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. Video by Pushpin Films
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