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Film / 1954
House of Ricordi
Directed by
Carmine Gallone
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.
The story
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 AlexandreGioacchino Rossini
Elisa CeganiGiuseppina Strepponi
Danièle DelormeMaria
Gabriele FerzettiGiacomo Puccini
Renzo GiovampietroTito Ricordi
Fosco GiachettiGiuseppe Verdi
Nadia GrayGiulia Grisi
Roldano LupiDomenico Barbaja
Paolo StoppaGiovanni Ricordi
Vira SilentiMarietta Ricordi
Myriam BruLuisa Lewis
Marcello MastroianniGaetano Donizetti
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Fausto TozziArrigo Boito
Micheline PresleVirginia Marchi
Gustavo SerenaIl direttore di scena
Andrea MongelliCantante
Aldo FerracutiCantante
Rosetta CalavettaVirginia Marchi
Juanita SatimanCantante
Ken NealeCantante
Fernando LidonniCantante
Arturo La PortaCantante
Enrico FormichiCantante
Nelly CorradiCantante
Italo TajoCantante
Renata TebaldiCantante
Giulietta SimionatoCantante
Gianni PoggiCantante
Giulio NeriCantante
Marineri MeliCantante
Gino MatteraCantante
Tito GobbiCantante
Giuseppe VarniMonti
Mario Del MonacoCantante
Sergio TofanoCesarini Sforza
Aldo SilvaniIl dottore di Bellini
Lauro GazzoloCarlotti
Memmo CarotenutoStuccatore
Julien CaretteFelix - l'oste
Manlio BusoniIl sovrintendente
Georges BréhatIl brigadiere
Märta TorénIsabella Colbran
Maurice RonetVincenzo Bellini
Renato MalavasiAmbrogi
Paola Rolando(uncredited)
Giuseppe PorelliCarlotti (uncredited)
Danik Patisson(uncredited)
Claudio Ermelli(uncredited)
Giovanni Checchi(uncredited)
Mimo Billi(uncredited)
Antoine BalpêtréDottor Fleury (uncredited)
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