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
	Ufficiali sui carri da guerra Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000721 costume design
	Ufficiali sui carri da guerra Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000722 costume design
	Porta insegne Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000723 costume design
	Porta insegne Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000724 costume design
	Palafrenieri Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000725 costume design
	Popolo egiziano Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000984 costume design
	Popolana egiziana Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000985 costume design
	Sacerdotessa danzatrice Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000986 costume design
	Danzatrice Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000987 costume design
	Porta palanchino Giuseppe Verdi, Aida	ICON000988 costume design