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

Description	Author	ID	Date
Salomea Krusceniski in the role of Madama Butterfly	Capitanio, Cristoforo	FOTO00653	1904
Virgilio Bellatti in the role of Sharpless	Capitanio, Cristoforo	FOTO00069	1904
Emmy Destinn in the role of Madama Butterfly	Johnston & Hoffmann	FOTO00383	1905
London: Dinner at the Pagani restaurant on the occasion of the premiere Madama Butterfly, among those present: Tito II Ricordi, Enrico Caruso, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Cleofonte Campanini and his wife Eva Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti, André Messager	Fradelle & Young	FOTO01996	10/07/1905
Supper Party given at the Savoy Hotel in London to M°Giacomo Puccini, 24 October 1905. In the foreground the conductor Leopoldo Mugnone	Fradelle & Young	FOTO01997	24/10/1905
Giacomo Puccini and the soprano Elsa Szamosi on the stage of the Royal Opera Theatre in Budapest, after the Hungarian premiere of Madama Butterfly, 12 May 1906	Kossak	FOTO01072	1906
M° Francesco Spetrino, Baron Angelo Eisner Eisenhof and Giacomo Puccini at the entrance of the Imperial Theater, Vienna, 1907	Ehrbar, Fritz	FOTO02829	1907
Giacomo Puccini in Egypt, 1908	Lucchesi, Paolo	FOTO01963	1908
Zorah Dorly	Boissonnas, Frédéric	FOTO02723	1908
Irma Timroth in the role of Butterfly	Gerola, Edoardo	FOTO01506	1910