da Enrico Melozzi | 05/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Jean-Baptiste Lully in the portrait by Paul Mignard. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, 8 January 1687. Louis XIV has just recovered from an operation that could have killed him, and his most powerful musician, Jean-Baptiste Lully, celebrates the narrow... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 03/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Hans Rott (1858-1884). Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).October 1880, a train bound for Alsace. A twenty-two-year-old Viennese pulls out a revolver and aims it at another passenger who is about to light a cigar. He mustn’t, he explains with perfect calm:... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 02/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Carlo Gesualdo, detail from the Altarpiece of the Pardon (1609), Santa Maria delle Grazie, Gesualdo. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Naples, the night of 16 to 17 October 1590, Palazzo San Severo. Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, comes home with armed men and... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 02/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Claude Debussy in a portrait by Félix Nadar, circa 1908. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The rumour has circulated for a century in foyers and in anecdote manuals: for Claude Debussy, three women supposedly tried to kill themselves. The true number, the one the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 29/08/2026 | Lungo formato, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Facsimile of an autograph page by Mozart, from “Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist,” 1908. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The autograph manuscript of Don Giovanni is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France under the shelfmark Ms. 1548. Eight... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
On 15 December 1815 a twenty-three-year-old from Pesaro signs a contract with Duke Francesco Sforza-Cesarini, impresario of the Teatro Argentina in Rome. He undertakes to write a comic opera for the following carnival, to deliver it in time for rehearsals, and to sit...
