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Lex Reitsma's posters, now exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

From 1990 to 2014, graphic designer Lex Reitsma (1958) created the visual identity for Dutch National Opera. The Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012) designed the costumes for Wagner’s famous cycle of four epic operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, performed by Dutch National Opera from 1997-2014.

Lex Reitsma
Dutch National Ballet and De Nederlandse Opera began operating under the name Dutch National Opera & Ballet this year, from the company’s home base at National Opera & Ballet, the former Amsterdam Music Theatre.?The merger of these Amsterdam cultural institutions also means that after 23 years, Lex Reitsma’s celebrated series of posters and program designs for Dutch National Opera, comes to an end. ?Reitsma also works as a documentary filmmaker, making films about graphic designer Jan Bons (2008), Rietveld’s Chair (2011), The Style of the Stedelijk (2012) and The Gijs+Emmy Spectacle (2014).?The exhibition includes the screening of two films made especially by Lex Reitsma for the occasion. One traces the collaboration between Pierre Audi and Eiko Ishioka, the other illuminates his own work for Dutch National Opera.