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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
Ernestina Bertramo-Bardazzi and Emma Gramatica in "Nellina" by Roberto Bracco, Act 3	Crocco Egineta, Carlo	FOTO02767	1910
Giulia De Riso in stage costume	Pettiti, Antonio	FOTO03068	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
Rosa Raisa in the role of Francesca da Rimini	Orlandini, Pellegrino	FOTO00898	1914
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
Cornell MacNeil and Marie Powers in the roles of John Sorel and his mother	Talbot-Giles	FOTO03318	1950