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
	Roderigo Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013018 costume design
	Dignitario della R. V. Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013019 costume design
	Lodovico Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013020 costume design
	Montano Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013021 costume design
	Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013023 costume design
	Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013024 costume design
	Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013025 costume design
	Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON013026 costume design
	Renzo Riccardo Zandonai , La Farsa Amorosa	ICON013042 costume design
	Lucia Riccardo Zandonai , La Farsa Amorosa	ICON013043 costume design