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
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001563 costume design
	Arciere Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001564 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001565 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001566 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001567 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001568 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001569 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001570 costume design
	Gentildonna Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001571 costume design
	Gentiluomo Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto	ICON001572 costume design