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.

Iconographies	Description	ID	Date
	Il Duca Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001328 costume design
	Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001329 costume design
	Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001330 costume design
	Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001331 costume design
	Sparafucile Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001332 costume design
	Il Conte di Monterone Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001333 costume design
	Giovanna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001334 costume design
	Il Conte di Ceprano Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001335 costume design
	Matteo Borsa Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001336 costume design
	Il cavaliere Marullo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001337 costume design