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 | 15/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Anton Bruckner. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Vienna, 1888. The remains of Beethoven and Schubert are being moved from the Währing cemetery to the new Central Cemetery, and watching the coffins being opened, at his own insistence, is a sixty-four-year-old... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Alma Mahler. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In December 1901 Gustav Mahler, forty-one, director of the Vienna Opera, writes to twenty-two-year-old Alma Schindler, his fiancée of a few weeks, a letter of some twenty pages that ranks among the most chilling... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Autumn 1821, Wiener Neustadt, a small town south of Vienna. Toward evening the gendarmes stop a man wandering the streets in pitiful condition: an old overcoat, no hat, peering into the windows of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Antonio Salieri, portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On 14 October 1791, seven weeks before he died, Mozart writes his wife a letter in excellent spirits: he has taken Salieri and his companion by carriage to hear The Magic... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 11/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Hector Berlioz. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Rome, April 1831. Hector Berlioz, twenty-seven, is at the Villa Medici as winner of the Prix de Rome, and receives from Paris the letter he has dreaded for weeks: his fiancée, the pianist Camille Moke, is marrying...
