da Enrico Melozzi | 29/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
The cello, he says, can do anything: sing, weep, laugh, scream. And then, above all, speak. Giovanni Sollima, born in Palermo in 1962, has taken it into the Sahara, underwater and inside a block of ice, which under the weight of four strings doesn’t melt: it... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 29/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
At five, with a pillow for a belly, he sang Nessun dorma in imitation of Pavarotti. At ten he was taking on Ulrica from Un ballo in maschera. Then high school, enrolment in Chemistry, the first professional choirs and the discovery of the job he really wanted: voice... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 27/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
May 2023, Cesena. In the home of her teacher, Pia Zanca, overrun by flood mud, among shovels and rubber boots, the only score left on the piano is the Queen of the Night. Radmila Novozheeva opens it and sings, without a single warm-up exercise, in front of the people... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 23/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Vladimir Horowitz, 1986. Via Wikimedia Commons.New York, Carnegie Hall, 9 May 1965. The queue for tickets has wrapped around the block for two days, with thermoses and sleeping bags, and the newspapers send photographers as if to a news event: because it is one. That... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 21/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Carlos Kleiber in the recording studio with the Staatskapelle Dresden. Deutsche Fotothek, via Wikimedia Commons.The line belongs to Herbert von Karajan, who knew a thing or two about work, having always done too much of it: Carlos Kleiber only conducts when his fridge... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 20/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Franz Liszt, photographed by Nadar, March 1886. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The term was coined not by a music journalist but by a poet: Lisztomania, wrote Heinrich Heine in 1844, searching for a clinical word for a phenomenon with no precedent, one that the...
