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
	Giovane popolana Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007521 costume design
	Vecchia Popolana Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007522 costume design
	Vecchia popolana Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007523 costume design
	Gentiluomo Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007524 costume design
	1797 Gentiluomo Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007525 costume design
	Gentiluomo Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007526 costume design
	Donna Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007527 costume design
	Dama Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007528 costume design
	Paggio Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007529 costume design
	Dama Amilcare Ponchielli, Lina	ICON007530 costume design