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
Giovanni Ricordi	ICON010908 drawing
Gioachino Rossini	ICON010909 drawing
Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi	ICON010910 drawing	1892
Giovanni Ricordi	ICON010915 drawing
Tito II Ricordi	ICON010916 drawing	1912
Giuseppe Armanini	ICON010917 drawing
Giulio Ricordi	ICON010918 drawing	1892
Giulio Ricordi	ICON010919 drawing
G. Spontini	ICON010925 drawing
Errico Petrella	ICON010927 drawing