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

Iconographies	Description	ID	Date
	Arlecchino	ICON012460 drawing
	Disegno per copertina di libretto Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alceste	ICON012463 drawing
	Violoncello	ICON012492 drawing
	Viola e Violino	ICON012493 drawing
	Violoncello	ICON012494 drawing
	Contrabbasso	ICON012495 drawing
	Flauto e Ottavino	ICON012496 drawing
	Controfagotto	ICON012500 drawing
	Controfagotto	ICON012501 drawing
	Tromba	ICON012502 drawing