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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Mimì, Act 1 | Daguerre | FOTO00070 | 1900 | |
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 | |
Cornell MacNeil and Patricia Neway in the roles of John e Magda Sorel | Talbot-Giles | FOTO03317 | 15/03/1950 | |
Dragan Lakovitch in the role of Neurasthenic, Belgrade, 1962 | Moysilovitch | FOTO03261 | 1962 | |
Luciano Pavarotti made his American debut in Miami in 1965 with Joan Sutherland in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" | Pineda, John | FOTO02120 | 1965 | |
Merce Cunningham in Solo, 1973 | Mitchell, Jack | FOTO02142 | 1973 | |
Simone Alaimo in the role of Polidoro | Falsini, Corrado Maria | FOTO03304 | 1980 | |
Vincenzo La Scola and Mariella Devia in the roles of Duca di Mantova and Gilda | Deriu, Giovanna | FOTO03323 | 1990 |