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
Andrea Mongelli
Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
Cantante
Rosetta Calavetta
Virginia Marchi
Juanita Satiman
Cantante
Ken Neale
Cantante
Fernando Lidonni
Cantante
Arturo La Porta
Cantante
Enrico Formichi
Cantante
Nelly Corradi
Cantante
Italo Tajo
Cantante
Renata Tebaldi
Cantante
Giulietta Simionato
Cantante
Gianni Poggi
Cantante
Giulio Neri
Cantante
Marineri Meli
Cantante
Gino Mattera
Cantante
Tito Gobbi
Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
Monti
Mario Del Monaco
Cantante
Sergio Tofano
Cesarini Sforza
Aldo Silvani
Il dottore di Bellini
Lauro Gazzolo
Carlotti
Memmo Carotenuto
Stuccatore
Julien Carette
Felix - l'oste
Manlio Busoni
Il sovrintendente
Georges Bréhat
Il brigadiere
Märta Torén
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)
Crew
Carmine Gallone
Director, Screenplay, Story
Leonardo Benvenuti
Screenplay, Story
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Screenplay, Story, First Assistant Director
Furio Scarpelli
Screenplay, Story
Vittorio Nino Novarese
Screenplay, Story
Agenore Incrocci
Screenplay, Story
Niccolò Lazzari
Editor
Gabriella Pacho
Assistant Editor
Marco Scarpelli
Director of Photography
Nanni Loy
First Assistant Director
Franco Cirino
First Assistant Director
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Producer
Franco Riganti
Line Producer
Mario Chiari
Production Design
Giuseppe Rotunno
Camera Operator
Luigi Di Giorgio
Assistant Camera
Giorgio Hermann
Assistant Costume Designer
Marisa Polidori
Assistant Costume Designer
Maria De Matteis
Costume Design
Renata Magnanti
Hairstylist
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Department Head
Raimondo Van Riel
Makeup Artist
Ennio Sensi
Sound
Joseph Nathanson
Special Effects
Renzo Rossellini
Original Music Composer
Luigi Ricci
Music Consultant
Beni Montresor
Set Decoration
Carla Gervasi
Script Supervisor
Mario Garbuglia
Assistant Production Design
Orazio Tassara
Production Manager
Giorgio Riganti
Unit Manager
Nello Meniconi
Unit Manager
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Angelo Binarelli
Production Secretary
Paolo Gargano
Production Secretary
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