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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
Virgilio Bellatti in the role of Sharpless	Capitanio, Cristoforo	FOTO00069	1904
Emmy Destinn in the role of Madama Butterfly	Johnston & Hoffmann	FOTO00383	1905
Gea della Garisenda in stage costume	Montabone, Luigi	FOTO00507	1905
Vanni Marcoux in the role of Scarpia, Act 1	Corn: De Jong	FOTO00727	1905
Maria Santoliva Villani in the role of Tosca	Garcia, Antonio	FOTO00988	1905
Elena Bianchini Cappelli with Piero Schiavazzi and Riccardo Stracciari in the roles of Amica, Giorgio and Renaldo	Allegranti e Miniati	FOTO00083	1905
Gennaro De Tura in the role of Aligi	Agamben F.lli	FOTO01999	1906
Elisa Tromben in the role of Madama Butterfly	Buzzoni, S.	FOTO02184	1906
Elvira Donnarumma in stage costume	Cardano & Guenzi	FOTO00397	1906
Ladislava Hotkovska in the role of Amneris	Bertani, Ettore	FOTO00624	1906