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
Butterfly con Sharpless e Goro Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000011 drawing	1904
Sharpless legge a Butterfly una lettera Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000012 drawing	1904
Butterfly con il figlio e Suzuki Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000013 drawing	1904
Butterfly e Suzuki Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000014 drawing	1904
Suzuki con Sharpless e Pinkerton Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000015 drawing	1904
Butterfly incontra Kate Pinkerton Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000016 drawing	1904
Pinkerton e il bambino accanto a Butterfly morta Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000017 drawing	1904
Giuseppe Verdi e i suoi cavalli nella Villa di Sant'Agata	ICON000018 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi e Teresa Stolz lungo il viale dei pioppi a Sant' Agata	ICON000019 drawing
Esterno di Villa Verdi a Sant' Agata	ICON000020 drawing