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.
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
Il direttore di scena
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Virginia Marchi
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Monti
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Cesarini Sforza
Il dottore di Bellini
Carlotti
Stuccatore
Felix - l'oste
Il sovrintendente
Il brigadiere
Isabella Colbran
Vincenzo Bellini
Ambrogi
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Carlotti (uncredited)
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Dottor Fleury (uncredited)