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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
Serie di figurini e tavole attrezzi Nicola Spinelli, A Basso Porto	ICON013520 copies folder
Serie di figurini Riccardo Zandonai , Francesca da Rimini	ICON013538 copies folder
Pianta scenica Licinio Refice, Cecilia	ICON013583 stage plan
Pianta scenica Licinio Refice, Cecilia	ICON013584 stage plan
Pianta scenica Licinio Refice, Cecilia	ICON013585 stage plan
Pianta scenica Licinio Refice, Cecilia	ICON013586 stage plan
Disegno per copertina di libretto Ildebrando Pizzetti, Assassinio nella Cattedrale	ICON013676 drawing
Disegno per copertina di libretto Francis Poulenc, I Dialoghi delle Carmelitane	ICON013677 drawing	1957