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
	Popolo di Ninive Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005303 costume design
	Popolo di Ninive Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005304 costume design
	Popolo Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005305 costume design
	Persiani Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005306 costume design
	Persiane Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005307 costume design
	Babilonesi Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005308 costume design
	Babilonesi Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005309 costume design
	Arabi Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005310 costume design
	Arabe Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005311 costume design
	Caldei Amilcare Ponchielli, Il Figliuol prodigo	ICON005312 costume design