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
Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Märta Torén
Isabella Colbran
Maurice Ronet
Vincenzo Bellini
Paolo Stoppa
Giovanni Ricordi
Renato Malavasi
Ambrogi
Renata Tebaldi
Cantante
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Memmo Carotenuto
Stuccatore
Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Aldo Silvani
Il dottore di Bellini
Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja
Pino Locchi
(Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)
Andreina Pagnani
(Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)
Enrico Maria Salerno
(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi
Nelly Corradi
Cantante
Antoine Balpêtré
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
Olinto Cristina
(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
Sergio Tofano
Cesarini Sforza
Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi
Rosetta Calavetta
(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
Danik Patisson
(uncredited)
Giuseppe Porelli
Carlotti (uncredited)
Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini
Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi
Julien Carette
Felix - l'oste
Tito Gobbi
Cantante
Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi
Danièle Delorme
Maria
Claudio Ermelli
(uncredited)
Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
Maria Pia Di Meo
(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
Rina Morelli
(Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)
Lauro Gazzolo
(Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)
Lydia Simoneschi
(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
Mimo Billi
(uncredited)
Raimondo Van Riel
Italo Tajo
Cantante
Mario Del Monaco
Cantante
Giuseppe Rinaldi
(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
Cesare Polacco
(Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)
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
Gino Mattera
Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
Monti
Manlio Busoni
Il sovrintendente
Georges Bréhat
Il brigadiere
Paola Rolando
(uncredited)

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