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.
as Gioacchino Rossini
as Giuseppina Strepponi
as Maria
as Giacomo Puccini
as Tito Ricordi
as Giuseppe Verdi
as Giulia Grisi
as Domenico Barbaja
as Giovanni Ricordi
as Marietta Ricordi
as Luisa Lewis
as Gaetano Donizetti
as Arrigo Boito
as Virginia Marchi
as Il direttore di scena
as Cantante
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as Virginia Marchi
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as Monti
as Cantante
as Cesarini Sforza
as Il dottore di Bellini
as Carlotti
as Stuccatore
as Felix - l'oste
as Il sovrintendente
as Il brigadiere
as Isabella Colbran
as Vincenzo Bellini
as Ambrogi
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as Carlotti (uncredited)
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as Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
