da Enrico Melozzi | 08/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Albrecht Dürer, The Death of Orpheus, 1494. Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On 23 February 1607 Carlo Magni, a gentleman of the court of Mantua, writes to his brother in Rome that the following evening the prince will have a...
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/10/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
In 2018, at the X Factor auditions, Marco Anastasio took De Gregori’s Generale and rewrote it from the inside, with no fear of falling short; he went on to win that season with a song of his own, La fine del mondo (The End of the World). From his classical high...
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/10/2026 | Dossier, Lungo formato, Melos, Nuove opere
by Enrico MelozziThis is instalment thirteen of thirteen, the last. The thesis is in instalment one and has not changed. Here we take stock.Vienna, December 1791, the apartment in the Rauhensteingasse. On the table, the manuscript gatherings of the Requiem. Over the...
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/10/2026 | Lungo formato, Melos
by the Melos Chorus Second instalment of the portrait of Giovanni Sollima. A cellist, a composer and an orchestra that took the name of a forbidden theatre. On the evening of 18 March 2012 the Teatro Valle in Rome has been under occupation for nine months. Giovanni...
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/10/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos
On 6 November 1946 the Associazione generale italiana dello spettacolo and the Federazione dei lavoratori dello spettacolo signed the contract for the orchestral players of La Scala, the Rome Opera, Santa Cecilia and the autonomous institutions of Florence, Genoa and...
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
On 1 June 1581, in Florence, Vincenzo Galilei signed the dedication of a book that had almost failed to appear. He addressed it to his patron, Count Giovanni Bardi of Vernio, and put into it an outburst that no publisher today would let through. He had handed the...