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
	Fanciulli del popolo Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003868 costume design
	Fanciulli del popolo Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003869 costume design
	Fanciulli del popolo Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003870 costume design
	Fanciulli del popolo Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003871 costume design
	Fanciulli patrizi Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003872 costume design
	Fanciulli patrizi Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003873 costume design
	Fanciulli patrizi Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003874 costume design
	Fanciulli patrizi Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003875 costume design
	Fanciulle patrizie Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003876 costume design
	Fanciulle patrizie Riccardo Zandonai , Melenis	ICON003877 costume design