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