Evaluation of the Hearing Function in the Orchestra Professional Musicians of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Terenzio Cassina, Alessia Tomasin, Orietta Calcinoni, Umberto Ambrosetti, Eliana Filipponi, Valeria Castelli, Riccardo Bianchin, Valentina Teodorani, Laura Magnoni, Leonardo Braga, Linda Parati, Federica Di Berardino · 2025
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Terenzio Cassina and co-authors tested the hearing of the orchestra at Milan's La Scala opera house in 2025. They asked whether a career inside loud music wears the ear the way factory noise does. Opera pits are loud by any standard measure.
Musicians' average hearing sat slightly below that of a healthy unexposed public, yet clear impairment was rare: under three percent in both ears. Four violinists showed loss in the left ear only, the ear nearer the instrument. The damage rate ran well below what the standard industrial noise model predicts for the same exposure. Ten year comparisons showed decline on par with plain aging. The authors judge the risk real but modest.
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| CREATOR | Terenzio Cassina, Alessia Tomasin, Orietta Calcinoni, Umberto Ambrosetti, Eliana Filipponi, Valeria Castelli, Riccardo Bianchin, Valentina Teodorani, Laura Magnoni, Leonardo Braga, Linda Parati, Federica Di Berardino |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |