da Enrico Melozzi | 18/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Maria Malibran. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1836 Maria Malibran was the most famous singer in the world, and she had won that world inch by inch: daughter of the tenor and teacher Manuel García, who had trained her with legendary severity, she had debuted... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1737 the most famous and highest-paid singer in the world, Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, thirty-two years old, at the peak of a career that had sent Naples, Vienna and London into... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 16/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Maria Callas, 1958. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).It was an evening built for history: the opening of the year at the Rome Opera, Norma with Maria Callas, the President of the Republic Giovanni Gronchi in the box with his wife, RAI broadcasting. Callas had... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Interpreti, Melos
Carl Czerny. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).For generations of piano students, Czerny is a life sentence: the speed studies, the metronome drills, the calisthenics. It is a serious historical injustice, because Carl Czerny is something else entirely: he is the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 11/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Glenn Gould. Via Wikimedia Commons.Los Angeles, 10 April 1964. Glenn Gould, thirty-one, the most famous pianist on the planet after the triumph of the Goldberg Variations recorded in 1955, plays a recital at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre: Bach, Beethoven, Hindemith. No... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 04/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Sergiu Celibidache, 1966. Via Wikimedia Commons.In the history of the classical record there is a hole in the shape of a man. Sergiu Celibidache, a Romanian, one of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century, spent half his career refusing what for all his...
