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Photographs

Collection

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

On focus

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
Giovanni Martinelli in the role of Dick Johnson	Reale, Francesco	FOTO00710	1911
Adelaide von Staveren in the role of Azucena	Carà, Angelo	FOTO02177	1912
Lucille Lawrence in the role of Minnie	Boni, Egidio	FOTO00566	1912
Ottorino Lunardiin the role of Beckmesser	Carposio, Ilario	FOTO00572	1912
Bianca Stagno Ricordi in the role of Conchita, Nizza 1914	Schenker, Karl	FOTO01987	1914
Rosa Raisa in the role of Francesca da Rimini	Orlandini, Pellegrino	FOTO00898	1914
Carmen Melis in the role of Madama Butterfly	Lo Cascio	FOTO00693	1920
Aureliano Pertile in the role of Nerone	Pacchioni, Italo	FOTO01872	1924
Gianna Pederzini in the role of Fedora	Camuzzi, Mario	FOTO02517	1947
Mario Del Monaco in the role of Andrea Chénier	LeBlang, Sedge	FOTO02487	1950