Plot
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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Cast
Roland Alexandre
Gioacchino Rossini
Elisa Cegani
Giuseppina Strepponi
Danièle Delorme
Maria
Gabriele Ferzetti
Giacomo Puccini
Renzo Giovampietro
Tito Ricordi
Fosco Giachetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Nadia Gray
Giulia Grisi
Roldano Lupi
Domenico Barbaja
Paolo Stoppa
Giovanni Ricordi
Vira Silenti
Marietta Ricordi
Myriam Bru
Luisa Lewis
Marcello Mastroianni
Gaetano Donizetti
Fausto Tozzi
Arrigo Boito
Micheline Presle
Virginia Marchi
Maria Pia Di Meo
(Voice dubbing for Vira Silenti)
Olinto Cristina
(Voice dubbing for Giuseppe Vami)
Rosetta Calavetta
(Voice dubbing for Micheline Presle)
Lydia Simoneschi
(Voice dubbing for Nadia Gray)
Enrico Maria Salerno
(Voice dubbing for Roland Alexandre)
Giuseppe Rinaldi
(Voice dubbing for Maurice Ronet)
Cesare Polacco
(Voide dubbing for Memmo Carotenuto)
Andreina Pagnani
(Voice dubbing for Märta Torén & Myriam Bru)
Rina Morelli
(Voice dubbing for Danièle Delorme)
Pino Locchi
(Voice dubbing for Fausto Tozzi)
Lauro Gazzolo
(Voice dubbing for Julien Carette)
Gustavo Serena
Il direttore di scena
Andrea Mongelli
Cantante
Aldo Ferracuti
Cantante
Rosetta Calavetta
Virginia Marchi
Juanita Satiman
Cantante
Ken Neale
Cantante
Fernando Lidonni
Cantante
Arturo La Porta
Cantante
Enrico Formichi
Cantante
Nelly Corradi
Cantante
Italo Tajo
Cantante
Renata Tebaldi
Cantante
Giulietta Simionato
Cantante
Gianni Poggi
Cantante
Giulio Neri
Cantante
Marineri Meli
Cantante
Gino Mattera
Cantante
Tito Gobbi
Cantante
Giuseppe Varni
Monti
Mario Del Monaco
Cantante
Sergio Tofano
Cesarini Sforza
Aldo Silvani
Il dottore di Bellini
Lauro Gazzolo
Carlotti
Memmo Carotenuto
Stuccatore
Julien Carette
Felix - l'oste
Manlio Busoni
Il sovrintendente
Georges Bréhat
Il brigadiere
Märta Torén
Isabella Colbran
Maurice Ronet
Vincenzo Bellini
Renato Malavasi
Ambrogi
Paola Rolando
(uncredited)
Giuseppe Porelli
Carlotti (uncredited)
Danik Patisson
(uncredited)
Claudio Ermelli
(uncredited)
Giovanni Checchi
(uncredited)
Mimo Billi
(uncredited)
Antoine Balpêtré
Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
