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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
Il Quintetto Gullì	Strizzi, I.	FOTO00615	1897
Cesare Stiattesi	Stoppani, S.	FOTO03126	1899
Konrad Zawilowski in the role of Scarpia, Act 2	Schwarz, H.	FOTO03110	1900
Mira Heller nel ruolo di Amneris	Trzemeski & Blachowski	FOTO03134	1900
John David Davis	Whitlock, H.	FOTO03138	1900
Attilio Brugnoli	Pesci, E.	FOTO00906	1900
Performers on stage	Le Photo-Programme	FOTO01162	1900
Tito II Ricordi	Studio Bertieri	FOTO02707	1900
Alberto Bachmann	Messy	FOTO03003	1900
Enrico Caruso with Francesco Paolo Tosti and Antonio Scotti during a vacation in London	Angeli, A.	FOTO00221	1900