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
Photograph | Description | Author | ID | Date |
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The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti: stage photo | Weiss, Jacques jr | FOTO03316 | 1960 | |
I Dialoghi delle Carmelitane, Palermo, Teatro Massimo | Allotta | FOTO02626 | 1964 | |
Don Giovanni by Mozart, stage photo, Naple, Teatro San Carlo, season 1964-65 | Troncone, Roberto | FOTO03292 | 1964 | |
Cygnes, ballet by Maurice Bejart, stage photo | Kayaert, Robert | FOTO03252 | 1965 | |
from the left: Giancarlo Vantaggio, Giuseppe Carbone, Fernando Lizundia, Ray Barra in the ballet Le Testament, 8° Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, 1965 | Neumeister, Werner | FOTO03254 | 1965 | |
L'Idiota, by Luciano Chailly, a scene | Agenzia Dufoto | FOTO02616 | 1970 | |
Alexander Bogatyrev and Natalia Bessmertnova in the roles of Romeo and Juliet | Pedencuk, L. | FOTO03242 | 1970 | |
Ballet, stage photo | Smith, Mark Edward | FOTO03245 | 1970 | |
Fröken Julie, ballet, stage photo | Bergstrom, Beata | FOTO03247 | 1970 | |
Noella Pontois and Charles Jude in the ballet Suite en blanc | Masson, Coilette | FOTO03248 | 1970 |