da Enrico Melozzi | 20/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1755. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Rome, 20 February 1816, Teatro Argentina. An opera buffa that the playbill calls Almaviva, o sia L’inutile precauzione goes on stage, and the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 15/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Florence, 1606. From the press of Cristofano Marescotti comes a little book for anyone who wants to play the Spanish guitar without paying a teacher: Girolamo Montesardo’s Nuova inventione d’intavolatura. It is the first Italian book to print two words... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 11/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Josef Hoffmann, set design sketch for Das Rheingold, Bayreuth 1876. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Bayreuth, 13 August 1876. The auditorium of the new theatre is dark, the orchestra is hidden beneath the stage, and from the bottom of the pit rises an E flat so... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
In July 1720 Johann Sebastian Bach returned to Köthen from Carlsbad, where he had accompanied his prince, Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, to the spa. He had left his wife, Maria Barbara, in good health. He found her dead and already buried: the register of St James’s... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 30/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Richard Strauss. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Two orchestral species share the concert programme, and to the ear they can sound like the same animal: the symphony and the symphonic poem. The difference lies neither in forces nor in length: it lies in the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 25/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos, Officina
Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov, 1912. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The fact, if you think about it without habit, is physically absurd: one person alone, with no amplification whatsoever, is clearly audible above an orchestra of eighty instruments, in a...
