da Enrico Melozzi | 20/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
William Hogarth, The Bad Taste of the Town (Masquerades and Operas), 1723-24. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).London, June 1727, the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket. They are giving Bononcini’s Astianatte; Caroline, Princess of Wales, is in the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 20/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1755. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Rome, 20 February 1816, Teatro Argentina. An opera buffa that the playbill calls Almaviva, o sia L’inutile precauzione goes on stage, and the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/10/2026 | Melos, Opinioni
Moritz von Schwind, Ein Schubert-Abend bei Joseph von Spaun, 1868. Vienna, Wien Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).February 1958. In the American magazine High Fidelity, read by people who bought stereo systems and classical records, an essay appears by... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Ernst Oppler, Arthur Nikisch. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Berlin, 10 November 1913. Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic walk into a studio that has nothing an orchestra needs: no hall, no acoustics, no room. A metal horn juts out of one wall, and... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/10/2026 | Agenda, Melos
Antonio Pappano conducts Bruckner’s Ninth with the London Symphony Orchestra on 21 and 25 October, and on 29 October the orchestra gives the world premiere of a Hannah Kendall work. In Los Angeles, Teddy Abrams unveils a new piece written for the LA Phil, and... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 18/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, Seated, 1906. Vienna, Wien Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Vienna, July 1911. Arnold Schoenberg signs the preface of a book that Universal Edition is about to send to press, and at its head he places a...
