Casa Ricordi (1955)
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Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all Italy. It was the Ricordis who, for better or worse, came up with the "royalty" concept, paying artists (and their families) for their work in perpetuity. As the family's fortune grows, the Ricordis rub shoulders with the musical glitterati of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini, Bellini and Rossini. Naturally, this allows the film to showcase some of these composers' most famous works--and in true Hollywood-by-the-Mediterranean fashion, the principal influence for these compositions are the various members of the Ricordi family. The soundtrack of Casa Ricordi reverberates with the voices of such musical immortals as Tito Gobbi, Renata Tibaldi, Mario Del Monaco and Gianni Poggi, among many others. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Miriam Bru - Luisa Lewis
- Andrea Checchi - Giulio Ricordi
- Fosco Giachetti - Giuseppe Verdi
- Micheline Presle - Virginia Marchi
- Paolo Stoppa - Giovanni Ricordi
- Fausto Tozzi - Arrigo Boito
- Renata Tebaldi
- Rolando Lupi - Domenico Barbaja
- Elisa Cegani - Giuseppina Strepponi
- Gabriele Ferzetti - Giacomo Puccini
- Nadia Gray - Giulia Grisi
- Maurice Ronet - Vicenzo Bellini
- Märta Torén - Isabella Colbran
- Tito Gobbi
- Giulio Neri
- Marcello Mastroianni - Gaetano Donizetti
- Director(s):
- Carmine Gallone
- Writer(s):
- Vittorio Nino Novarese, Leo Benvenuti, Furio Scarpelli
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