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
	Gilda Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001553 costume design
	Gilda Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001554 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001555 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001556 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001557 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001558 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001559 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001560 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001561 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001562 costume design