da Enrico Melozzi | 02/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Apollo with the lyre, Attic kylix of the fifth century BC. Delphi Archaeological Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).There is a black hole at the origin of European culture, and almost nobody looks at it. The Greeks of the fifth century, the people who gave... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Lungo formato, Melos, Nuove opere, Opinioni
The auditorium of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.by Enrico Melozzi A legislative proposal for contemporary operatic creation. The articulated text, in eleven articles, is in the appendix. On 23 December 2024, the Ministry of Culture signed... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Nuove opere, Opinioni
Portrait of Pietro Mascagni. Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).More than ten million people watch the final of the Sanremo song festival. The world premiere of a new Italian opera, when there is one, is seen over three evenings by a few... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
James Gillray, “The Pic-Nic Orchestra”, 1802. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).In 1816 a Roman theatre commissioned a new opera from a twenty-three-year-old and staged it two months later. In 2026 an Italian theatre programmes a season made...
