House of Ricordi (1954)
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.
Cast
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
Giovanni Ricordi
Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi
Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti
Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Gustavo Serena
Il direttore di scena
Rosetta Calavetta
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