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

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