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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
Antonio Salvadori, Miro Solman and Ilaria HGalgani in the roles of Guglielmo, Mazurec e Isaura	Sinopoli	FOTO03290	1994
Miro Solman and Ilaria Galgani in the roles of Mazurec and Isaura	Sinopoli	FOTO03291	1994
Madama Butterfly, La Scala, 1996	Lelli & Masotti	FOTO01650	1996
Arditti Quartet	Hanya Chlala	FOTO01682
Il Campanello by Gaetano Donizetti, autograph score, folio 2r. Napoli, Conservatorio S.Pietro a Majella	Visual Studio	FOTO03259
Stage photo for BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET	Boria, Aldo	FOTO03289
Stage photo	Martinero, Italo	FOTO03296
Colloquio col tango, by Raffaello De Banfield, photo of stage	Hausmann, Franz	FOTO02917
Booth of Casa Ricordi at Book fair in Turin	Martini	FOTO02988