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
	Tavola E Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON001799 prop design
	Tavola F Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON001800 prop design
	Tavola Attrezzi G Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON001801 prop design
	Tavola H Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON001802 prop design
	Tavola K Giuseppe Verdi, Otello	ICON001803 prop design
	Attrezzeria Giuseppe Verdi, Ernani	ICON001830 prop design
	Attrezzeria Giacomo Puccini, Le Villi	ICON001831 prop design
	Tavola dell'Attrezzista Giacomo Puccini, Le Villi	ICON001832 prop design
	Tavola dell'Attrezzista Giacomo Puccini, Le Villi	ICON001833 prop design
	Tavola del Parrucchiere Giacomo Puccini, Le Villi	ICON001834 prop design