

House of Ricordi
Genres
Overview
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
110 min
Release Date
1954-12-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
6.2
Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini
Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi
Danièle Delorme
Maria
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi
Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi
Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja
Paolo Stoppa
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Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
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Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Gustavo Serena
Il direttore di scena
Andrea Mongelli
Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
Cantante
Rosetta Calavetta
Virginia Marchi
Juanita Satiman
Cantante
Ken Neale
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Fernando Lidonni
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Arturo La Porta
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Enrico Formichi
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Nelly Corradi
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Italo Tajo
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Isabella Colbran
Maurice Ronet
Vincenzo Bellini
Renato Malavasi
Ambrogi
Paola Rolando
(uncredited)
Giuseppe Porelli
Carlotti (uncredited)
Danik Patisson
(uncredited)
Claudio Ermelli
(uncredited)
Giovanni Checchi
(uncredited)
Mimo Billi
(uncredited)
Antoine Balpêtré
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
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