House of Ricordi

March. 12,1956      
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Roland Alexandre as  Gioacchino Rossini
Elisa Cegani as  Giuseppina Strepponi
Danièle Delorme as  Maria
Gabriele Ferzetti as  Giacomo Puccini
Renzo Giovampietro as  Tito Ricordi
Fosco Giachetti as  Giuseppe Verdi
Nadia Gray as  Giulia Grisi
Roldano Lupi as  Domenico Barbaja
Paolo Stoppa as  Giovanni Ricordi
Vira Silenti as  Marietta Ricordi

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