Credits
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)
Art

Mario Garbuglia
Assistant Production Design
Mario Chiari
Production Design
Beni Montresor
Set Decoration
Camera
Luigi Di Giorgio
Assistant Camera

Giuseppe Rotunno
Camera Operator
Marco Scarpelli
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
Giorgio Hermann
Assistant Costume Designer
Marisa Polidori
Assistant Costume Designer
Maria De Matteis
Costume Design
Renata Magnanti
Hairstylist

Raimondo Van Riel
Makeup Artist
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Department Head
Crew
Joseph Nathanson
Special Effects
Directing

Carmine Gallone
Director, Screenplay, Story

Nanni Loy
First Assistant Director
Franco Cirino
First Assistant Director
Carla Gervasi
Script Supervisor
Editing
Gabriella Pacho
Assistant Editor
Niccolò Lazzari
Editor
Production
Franco Riganti
Line Producer
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Producer
Orazio Tassara
Production Manager
Angelo Binarelli
Production Secretary
Paolo Gargano
Production Secretary
Nello Meniconi
Unit Manager
Giorgio Riganti
Unit Manager
Sound
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Luigi Ricci
Music Consultant

Renzo Rossellini
Original Music Composer
Ennio Sensi
Sound
Writing

Leonardo Benvenuti
Screenplay, Story

Agenore Incrocci
Screenplay, Story

Furio Scarpelli
Screenplay, Story
Vittorio Nino Novarese
Screenplay, Story

Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Screenplay, Story, First Assistant Director