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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.
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110 min
1954-12-01
Released
Italian
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6.2
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppina Strepponi
Maria
Giacomo Puccini
Tito Ricordi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giulia Grisi
Domenico Barbaja
Giovanni Ricordi
Marietta Ricordi
Luisa Lewis
Gaetano Donizetti
Arrigo Boito
Virginia Marchi
(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
(Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)
(Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)
(Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)
(Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)
(Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)
Il direttore di scena
Cantante
Cantante
Virginia Marchi
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
Cantante
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Cantante
Monti
Cantante
Cesarini Sforza
Il dottore di Bellini
Carlotti
Stuccatore
Felix - l'oste
Il sovrintendente
Il brigadiere
Isabella Colbran
Vincenzo Bellini
Ambrogi
(uncredited)
Carlotti (uncredited)
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Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
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