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
	Il Duca Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001543 costume design
	Il Duca Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001544 costume design
	Il Duca Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001545 costume design
	Il Duca Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001546 costume design
	Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001547 costume design
	La Contessa di Ceprano Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001548 costume design
	Giovanna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001549 costume design
	Maddalena Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001550 costume design
	Gilda Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001551 costume design
	Gilda Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001552 costume design