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
	Consiglieri di Stato Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008814 costume design
	Grandi Spagna Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008815 costume design
	Gentiluomini Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008816 costume design
	Cavaliere di Calatrava Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008817 costume design
	Araldi Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008818 costume design
	Paggi Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008819 costume design
	Soldati Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008820 costume design
	Ufficiali Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008821 costume design
	Paggio Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008822 costume design
	La Duchessa Filippo Marchetti, Ruy Blas	ICON008823 costume design