The archive’s iconographic collection is from the 19th and 20th centuries. The archive has about 600 original stage designs, mostly from the premieres of the respective works, starting with the designs for Verdi’s Attila by Giuseppe Bertoja up to Nicola Benois’s designs for Respighi’s La Fiamma from the 1930s. For some operas there are different variations, such as for Puccini’s Tosca and La bohème, depending on the size of the intended theater. Secondly, the picture collection consists of a collection of thousands of individual costume designs, most of them created by famous designers.
Iconographies | Description | ID | Date |
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Enrico Panofka
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ICON010832 drawing |
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Francesco Paolo Tosti
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ICON010859 drawing |
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Emilio Vaiana
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ICON010862 drawing |
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Giovan Battista Viotti
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ICON010870 drawing |
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Giovanni Bottesini
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ICON010885 drawing |
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Muzio Clementi
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ICON010895 drawing |
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Carl Czerny
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ICON010902 drawing |
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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ICON012852 drawing |
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Filippo Marchetti
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ICON012854 drawing |