Archivio Storico Ricordi | Collezione Digitale

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
from the left: Ferdinando Fontana and Giacomo Puccini	Rossi, Giulio	FOTO01068	1880
Giacomo Puccini	Ferrario, Achille	FOTO01440	1889
Giacomo Puccini on a boat, standing, sul Lago di Massaciuccoli.	A.M., A.	FOTO00791	1895
Giacomo Puccini seated on a boat, Lago di Massaciuccoli	A.M., A.	FOTO00792	1895
from the left: Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica	Montabone, Luigi	FOTO00536	1896
Giacomo Puccini and the guests at the lunch offered in the Restaurant Righi of Genoa after the last staging of Tosca in his	Testa, Achille	FOTO01992	20/05/1900
Giacomo Puccini portrait, in hunting suit	Pierotti, I.	FOTO01109	1902
Marchese Ginori's Swans in Massaciuccoli lake	Ornano, A.	FOTO00819	1903
Giacomo Puccini portrait on wheelchair, in the garden of the mansion of Torre del Lago	Caselli, Alfredo	FOTO01039	1903
Vanni Marcoux in the role of Scarpia, Act 1	Corn: De Jong	FOTO00727	1905