Archivio Storico Ricordi | Collezione Digitale

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.

Description	ID	Date
Attrezzeria Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON009952 prop design
Exaforo Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON009953 prop design
Carro pei Comici corteo di Nerone Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON009954 prop design
Carro Ambubaje Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON009955 prop design
Porto di Alessandria, grotta dell' abate Zosimo, porta del Tempio di Gerusalemme Ottorino Respighi, Maria Egiziaca	ICON010327 set design
Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi	ICON010910 drawing	1892
Via Appia - scena di trionfo Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON010941 set design
Il Circo Massimo, l'interno dell'Oppidum Arrigo Boito, Nerone	ICON010942 set design
Al quartiere latino Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème	ICON011064 set design
Al quartiere latino Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème	ICON011065 set design	1896