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 |
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Ferdinando Fontana
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ICON000035 drawing |
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Margherita Barezzi
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ICON010449 drawing |
1889 | |
Antonio Bazzini
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ICON010452 drawing |
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Paolo Ferrari
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ICON010522 drawing |
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Joseph Joachim
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ICON010715 drawing |
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Carlo Andreoli
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ICON010770 drawing |
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Charles De Blasis
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ICON010782 drawing |
1828 | |
Virginia Blasis
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ICON010783 drawing |
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Eugenio Checchi
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ICON010791 drawing |
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Giovanni Ricordi
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ICON010906 drawing |