da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Interpreti, Melos
In every opera house there is one person who knows the score better than the conductor, better than the singers and better than the director, and who does not appear on the poster. In the Italian contract the job is called maestro collaboratore, in English a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Officina
Portrait of Fedele Fenaroli. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Between 1650 and 1800, four orphanages in Naples produced most of the composers of Europe. Santa Maria di Loreto, Sant’Onofrio a Capuana, the Pietà dei Turchini, the Poveri di Gesù... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Storia e tecnica
On the evening of 16 October 1770 Charles Burney arrives in Naples and goes straight to the theatre. At the Fiorentini they are giving Piccinni’s Gelosia per gelosia, with Marianna Monti and the buffo Casaccia on stage, and the Englishman sits in the stalls with...
