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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

Iconographies	Description	ID	Date
	Una ridente valle presso Palermo Giuseppe Verdi, I Vespri Siciliani	ICON000133 set design
	La gran Piazza di Palermo Giuseppe Verdi, I Vespri Siciliani	ICON000134 set design
	Cortile di una fortezza Giuseppe Verdi, I Vespri Siciliani	ICON000135 set design
	L'esterno del Castello Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000155 set design
	Una sala terrena nel Castello Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000158 set design
	La Camera di Desdemona Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON000160 set design
	Svizzeri Giacomo Puccini, Tosca	ICON000362 costume design
	Attrezzeria Jules Massenet, Il Re di Lahore	ICON002785 prop design
	Attrezzeria Jules Massenet, Il Re di Lahore	ICON002786 prop design
	Renzo Errico Petrella, I Promessi Sposi	ICON009068 costume design