Archivio Storico Ricordi | Collezione Digitale

Iconography

Collection

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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.

On focus

Description	ID	Date
Gaetano Ottani	ICON010566 drawing
Ferdinando Paër	ICON010567 drawing	1809
Ersilia Ranzi	ICON010573 drawing	1846
Emile Prudent	ICON010575 drawing
Gaetano Pugnani	ICON010576 drawing
Gaetano Pugnani	ICON010577 drawing	1749
Henri Rosellen	ICON010578 drawing
Gioachino Rossini	ICON010583 drawing
Carolina Santoni	ICON010586 drawing
Franz Schoberlechner	ICON010589 drawing