House of Ricordi (1954)

Director: 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.

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