History Drama Music
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.
Directed by
Carmine Gallone
Paolo Stoppa
Giovanni Ricordi
Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi
Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi
Renato Malavasi
Ambrogi
Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Maurice Ronet
Vincenzo Bellini
Danièle Delorme
Maria
Memmo Carotenuto
Stuccatore
Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
Antoine Balpêtré
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi
Aldo Silvani
Il dottore di Bellini
Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Lauro Gazzolo
Carlotti
Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja
Julien Carette
Felix - l'oste
Giuseppe Porelli
Carlotti (uncredited)
Tito Gobbi
Cantante
Danik Patisson
(uncredited)
Märta Torén
Isabella Colbran
Claudio Ermelli
(uncredited)
Mimo Billi
(uncredited)
Sergio Tofano
Cesarini Sforza
Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi
Georges Bréhat
Il brigadiere
Rosetta Calavetta
Virginia Marchi
Renata Tebaldi
Cantante
Nelly Corradi
Cantante
Raimondo Van Riel
Mario Del Monaco
Cantante
Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini
Italo Tajo
Cantante
Gino Mattera
Cantante
Gustavo Serena
Il direttore di scena
Andrea Mongelli
Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
Cantante
Juanita Satiman
Cantante
Ken Neale
Cantante
Fernando Lidonni
Cantante
Arturo La Porta
Cantante
Enrico Formichi
Cantante
Giulietta Simionato
Cantante
Gianni Poggi
Cantante
Giulio Neri
Cantante
Marineri Meli
Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
Monti
Manlio Busoni
Il sovrintendente
Paola Rolando
(uncredited)

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