da Enrico Melozzi | 20/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
by the Melos Chorus, technical-scientific committeeFinal applause at an opera performance, Savonlinna festival. Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA).There is a moment of social terror every new listener knows: the music stops, the hands itch, and half the hall shoots a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 13/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
by the Melos Chorus, technical-scientific committeeAudience in the hall during a concert, Sydney Opera House. Via Wikimedia Commons.The sentence that kills more tickets than any price is always the same, and anyone who works in music hears it at every dinner party: I... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
from the Melos Chorus, technical and scientific committeeArturo Toscanini in Milan, 1953. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).This magazine admires Arturo Toscanini without reservation, and that is exactly why it can afford the sentence that follows: with him,... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dossier, Il Sistema, Melos
Honoré Daumier, “Concours du Conservatoire”, lithograph, 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).To get into an orchestra you play behind a screen. The candidate enters the hall, walks on a carpet so that the sound of shoes will not reveal... 
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 | 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...
