Music
The Ricordi Archive Goes Online
Thousands of scores, libretti, set designs, letters and historical photographs from 200 years of Italian opera history are stored at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan. They are gradually and carefully being indexed, restored and digitized by the archive’s owner, Bertelsmann. Two years after the historical stage and costume designs were made available online, an extensive collection of business correspondence has been added that provides deep insights into the cultural scene of the 19th and 20th centuries, including 30,000 business letters that the Italian music publisher Casa Ricordi received from or sent to artists and business partners all over the world.