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
Tito II Ricordi	ICON000028 drawing	1912
Giuseppe Giacosa	ICON000029 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi	ICON000030 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi	ICON000031 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi	ICON000032 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi	ICON000033 drawing	1886
Giuseppe Verdi	ICON000034 drawing	1842
Ferdinando Fontana	ICON000035 drawing
Arrigo Boito	ICON000036 drawing
Arrigo Boito	ICON000037 drawing