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.

Description	ID	Date
Scena della Valle all'apparizione di Venere Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011077 set design
Riproduzione fotografica del bozzetto Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011078 set design
Grotta di Venere Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011079 stage plan
Walle di Wartburg, Primavera Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011080 stage plan
Pianta scenica Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011081 stage plan
Walle col cartello, Autunno Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011082 stage plan
Apparizione di Venere Richard Wagner , Tannhäuser	ICON011083 stage plan
Kundry's Todkündung (Waldsee) Richard Wagner , Parsifal	ICON011708 set design	1882
Gurnemanz und Parsifal (Felsen) Richard Wagner , Parsifal	ICON011709 set design	1882
Die Liebesmahlfeier (Im Gralsaal) Richard Wagner , Parsifal	ICON011710 set design	1882