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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

Iconographies	Description	ID	Date
	Una sala terrena nel Castello Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000158 set design
	La Camera di Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000160 set design
	Svizzeri Giacomo Puccini, Tosca	ICON000362 costume design
	Beneficiati Italo Montemezzi, Giovanni Gallurese	ICON004194 costume design
	Aspra e selvaggia catena di monti Richard Wagner , La Walkiria	ICON009438 set design
	Paolo Ferrari	ICON010522 drawing
	Joseph Joachim	ICON010715 drawing
	Carlo Andreoli	ICON010770 drawing
	Eugenio Checchi	ICON010791 drawing
	Giovanni Ricordi	ICON010906 drawing