Archivio Storico Ricordi | Collezione Digitale

The archive’s iconographic collection is from the 19th and 20th centuries. The archive has about 600 original stage designs, mostly from the premieres of the respective works, starting with the designs for Verdi’s Attila by Giuseppe Bertoja up to Nicola Benois’s designs for Respighi’s La Fiamma from the 1930s. For some operas there are different variations, such as for Puccini’s Tosca and La bohème, depending on the size of the intended theater. Secondly, the picture collection consists of a collection of thousands of individual costume designs, most of them created by famous designers.

Iconographies	Description	ID	Date
	Capitani Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000671 costume design
	Capitani Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000672 costume design
	Capitani Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000673 costume design
	Capitani Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000674 costume design
	Ministri Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000675 costume design
	Ministri Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000676 costume design
	Ufficiali di Palazzo Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000677 costume design
	Ufficiali di Palazzo Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000678 costume design
	Sacerdoti Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000679 costume design
	Sacerdoti Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000680 costume design