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
Meg Eginton, Rob Remley, Joseph Lennon, Alan Good in the ballet Roadrunners, 1979	Greenfield, Lois	FOTO03249	1979
Zelmira: stage photo	Falsini, Corrado Maria	FOTO03305	1980
"Il Flaminio" by Giovabattista Pergolesi, review by Marcello Panni, production Teatro San Carlo, Naples, and Teatro La Fenice, Venice	Romano, Luciano	FOTO03320	1980
Compagnie Ariadone, stage photo	Di Fazio, Silvio	FOTO03243	1982
Anne Martin in the ballet Nelken by Pina Bausch, world premiere, Wuppertal, 1982	Weiss, Ulli	FOTO03244	1982
Prometeo, world premiere, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice	Arici, Graziano	FOTO02652	1984
Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti, stage photo	Buscarino, Maurizio	FOTO03295	1989
La Bohème, Act 2, stage photo	Capellini, Lorenzo	FOTO03321	1989
Peter Subert, Adriana Kohútková and Peter Mikuláš in the roles of Dottor Malatesta, Norina and Don Pasquale, Slovak National Theatre Bratislava, 1993	Marencinova, Katarina	FOTO03294	1993
Renée Fleming and Gregory Kunde in the roles of Armida an Rinaldo, Rossini Opera Festival 1993	Amati Bacciardi	FOTO03301	1993