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
	Decano dei cardinali Giacomo Puccini, Tosca	ICON013180 costume design
	Caudatario in Cappella Giacomo Puccini, Tosca	ICON013181 costume design
	Caudatario Giacomo Puccini, Tosca	ICON013182 costume design
	Citardi Arabi Cesare Galeotti, Anton	ICON013246 costume design
	L'Egiziano Cesare Galeotti, Anton	ICON013247 costume design
	Principe Jamadori Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON013249 costume design
	Ufficiale Cavalleria Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON013250 costume design
	Ufficiale fanteria Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly	ICON013251 costume design
	Borghese vecchia Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème	ICON013274 costume design
	Borghese giovane Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème	ICON013275 costume design