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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
Lo studio di Giuseppe Verdi nella Villa di Sant' Agata	ICON000021 drawing
Giuseppe Verdi ritratto nella sua Villa di Sant' Agata	ICON000023 drawing
Il laghetto di Villa Verdi a Sant' Agata	ICON000024 drawing
Ritratto di Cowboy Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla del West	ICON000040 drawing	1909
Radames incontra Aida nel sotterraneo del tempio Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000049 drawing	1902
Otello Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000050 drawing	1887
Sopra: ritratto di Adelina Stehle (Nannetta) con Giovanni Paroli (Cajus) seduti. Sotto: ritratto di Falstaff con mantello e corna Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff	ICON000057 drawing	1893
Collina presso Nagasaki Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000077 set design
Collina presso Nagasaki Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000079 set design
Interno della casetta di Butterfly Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON000080 set design