Description
Oliver Messel (1904-1978)/Costanza in 'The Seraglio', Glyndebourne, 1956/signed/watercolour, 35.5cm x 23.5cm/Note: Oliver Messel designed a whole series of productions for Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne from 1950 to 1959. His style as a designer went abruptly out of fashion in the face of the brute realism of the new drama