House of Ricordi

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House of Ricordi

1954

1h 50m

6.2(5 votes)

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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.

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62 members

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Roland Alexandre

Gioacchino Rossini

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Elisa Cegani

Giuseppina Strepponi

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Danièle Delorme

Maria

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Gabriele Ferzetti

Giacomo Puccini

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Renzo Giovampietro

Tito Ricordi

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Fosco Giachetti

Giuseppe Verdi

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Nadia Gray

Giulia Grisi

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Roldano Lupi

Domenico Barbaja

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Paolo Stoppa

Giovanni Ricordi

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Vira Silenti

Marietta Ricordi

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Myriam Bru

Luisa Lewis

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Marcello Mastroianni

Gaetano Donizetti

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Fausto Tozzi

Arrigo Boito

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Micheline Presle

Virginia Marchi

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Maria Pia Di Meo

(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)

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Olinto Cristina

(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)

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Rosetta Calavetta

(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)

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Lydia Simoneschi

(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)

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Enrico Maria Salerno

(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)

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Giuseppe Rinaldi

(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)

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Cesare Polacco

(Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)

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Andreina Pagnani

(Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)

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Rina Morelli

(Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)

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Pino Locchi

(Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)

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Lauro Gazzolo

(Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)

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Gustavo Serena

Il direttore di scena

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Andrea Mongelli

Cantante

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Aldo Ferracuti

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Rosetta Calavetta

Virginia Marchi

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Juanita Satiman

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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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Renata Tebaldi

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Giulietta Simionato

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Gianni Poggi

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Giulio Neri

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Marineri Meli

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Gino Mattera

Cantante

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Tito Gobbi

Cantante

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Giuseppe Varni

Monti

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Mario Del Monaco

Cantante

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Sergio Tofano

Cesarini Sforza

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Aldo Silvani

Il dottore di Bellini

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Lauro Gazzolo

Carlotti

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Memmo Carotenuto

Stuccatore

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Julien Carette

Felix - l'oste

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Manlio Busoni

Il sovrintendente

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Georges Bréhat

Il brigadiere

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Märta Torén

Isabella Colbran

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Maurice Ronet

Vincenzo Bellini

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Renato Malavasi

Ambrogi

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Paola Rolando

(uncredited)

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Giuseppe Porelli

Carlotti (uncredited)

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Danik Patisson

(uncredited)

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Claudio Ermelli

(uncredited)

Art

Giovanni Checchi

(uncredited)

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Mimo Billi

(uncredited)

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Antoine Balpêtré

Dottor Fleury (uncredited)

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