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| | Castrato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Moreschi recorded gramophone records for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company in 1902 and again in 1904. | | | The only acknowledged castrato to make phonograph recordings was Alessandro Moreschi, the last surviving castrato of the Pope's choir. | | | Critical opinion is divided about Moreschi's recordings; some say they are of little interest other than the novelty of preserving the voice of a castrato for Moreschi was a mediocre singer, while other critics detect the remains of a quite talented singer who was unfortunately past his prime by the time he recorded. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato
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| | The Age of the Castrato Voice |
| | The vocal ideal of the castrato voice was the expression of a musical image that was formed by cultural undercurrents that have surfaced recurrently throughout the history of mankind and continue to do so. | | | The impersonal desexed voice of the castrato was ideally suited for the gods and the mythological figures. | | | The one existing recording that was mentioned above gives only a poor impression of the castrato sound because of the limitation of sound reproduction at the beginning of this century. |
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http://www.radix.net/~dalila/singers/castrato-age.html
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| | Jones - "Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800" - Opera and Romanticism - Praxis ... |
| | As Gillen Wood argues, for example, Francis Burney's representation of the experience of listening to a castrato at the opera in Evelina and Cecilia is conspicuously disembodied—any and all description of the castrato's corporeality is absent, being transposed into the sound of his sublime voice. | | | Besides reminding us of the castrato's presence, the connection to Frankenstein's Creature reminds us to listen for romanticism as well as to look for it where bodies, and particularly exceptional bodies, are concerned. | | | Ultimately, the principal feature of the castrato voice is not that it is the voice of a woman in the body of a man, but rather its extraordinary, literally unheard-of quality. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/opera/jones/jones.html
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| | The Voice of the Castrato |
| | In the only recorded post-mortem examination of a castrato the dimensions of the larynx were strikingly small, with the vocal cords the length of a female high soprano. | | | The sole object was, of course, the preservation of the unbroken voice, and in the only recorded postmortem examination of a castrato the dimensions of the larynx were strikingly small with the vocal cords the length of a female high soprano [4]. | | | Moreschi, uniquely, made several gramophone recordings of his voice in 1902 and 1904, and although the recording technique was very deficient by modern standards they provide our only direct evidence of the sound of a castrato's singing voice. |
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http://www.radix.net/~dalila/singers/castrato-voice.html
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| | Castrati history |
| | Now instead of the singer being the king of the stage, it was the composer who ruled the kingdom. | | | The music that the composer wrote was never absolute. | | | After recovery, the boy would begin an intensive study of music and singing that could sometimes last ten years or more. |
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http://wa.essortment.com/castratihistory_rzna.htm
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| | CASTRATI WERE THE SUPERSTARS OF CENTURIES GONE BY! |
| | Casanova said that he met a singer, a girl, who claimed to be a castrato (otherwise, she would not be allowed to sing on the stage). | | | They were formally banned from the papal chapel by Pius X in 1903. | | | They would have one day a week solely allocated to improvisation. |
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http://www.opera-gems.com/reflections/castrati.htm
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| | More Info - All Mouth And No Trousers |
| | At 10, he was kicked out of the choir by the priests of the Santissimo Salvatore for "singing mass as Julie Andrews", while his mother wrung her hands at his coloratura hallelujahs. | | | Their larynxes failed to put on the growth spurt that occurs in boys at puberty, meaning that their vocal chords stayed close to the resonating chambers, creating a sound that was sublime, voluptuous and strange. | | | In his inaccurate but sumptuous 1994 film, Farinelli, Il Castrato, Gérard Corbiau suggested the sound by morphing the voices of a countertenor and a soprano. |
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http://www.transgender.freeserve.co.uk/tg/news/news1035.html
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| | Castrato Article in French - Eunuch Archive Message Boards |
| | It consists of 13 small portraits and one bigger one [of Farinelli], a central feature going over the history of castrats as the title promises and another one about the rendition of castrato music without the castrato voice. | | | So are some of the eleven songs on the CD, modern simulations of castrato performances, either by males whose voices didn't change, or by female sopranos with exceptional timbre and lung capacity? | | | Since listening to them and after a closer look, they refer to the whole content of the magazine, as the 11th one ~ Moreschi ~ refers to the month's special. |
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http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7708
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| | Amazon.com: Music From the Age of Castrato: Music |
| | Amazon.com: Music From the Age of Castrato: Music | | | I know that for beginners is a very strange sound and it takes some time getting used to it, but my husband for example, who has never heard music written for castratos before, was astounded when he heard this recording. | | | But in many of the performances in this CD one can let the imagination wander and almost imagine you are in the 18th century. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000017NE?v=glance
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| | Amazon.ca: Last Castrato Comp Vatican Re [Best of]: Music |
| | Professor Moreschi's voice is something that will never be heard again, and is the only example of what a Castrato sounded like, and that sound is amazing. | | | Whenever I hold it in my hands I think with awe "This is all we have." The sound of the voice is unlike anything you've ever heard. | | | He truly comes alive in the Tosti songs (in "Ideale" we even get to hear something like a knockout castrato performance of old), Rossini's "Crucifixus" and the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria". |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000WYS
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| | Review: Farinelli: Il Castrato |
| | Handel will not concede that the voice of a castrato is necessary for his compositions to attain their full impact; Farinelli initially refuses to admit that he needs Handel's music for fulfillment. | | | "A castrato was a male soprano or contralto singer whose unbroken voice had been preserved by castration performed before puberty so that the larynx would not develop. | | | Director Gerard Corbiau overcame the obstacle by recording the voices of Derek Lee Ragin and Ewa Mallas Godlewska, then electronically combining them. |
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http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/f/farinelli.html
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| | Singing Voice: Castrati |
| | Though Moreschi is past his prime and the recording technology is primitive, it gives the listener an idea of the mysterious beauty of the castrato voice. | | | Unbelievably, there exists a recording of the last castrato to direct the Sistine Chapel Choir, Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922). | | | Jenkins, "The Voice of the Castrato" Lancet 351 (1998): 1877-80. |
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http://singingvoice.worldzonepro.com/castrati.html
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| | Last Castrato - Wal-Mart |
| | Alessandro Moreschi was the last castrato singer, a male soprano who favored liturgical music. | | | Moreschi is also the only castrato to have recorded his voice. | | | Some critics have denounced the poor recording quality and have suggested that his voice, while unique and striking, does not capture the power of operatic castrati. |
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http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=842973
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| | CASTRATI |
| | He could be forced to study for up to ten years, singing every day and taking courses in music history, musical composition and the harpsichord. | | | In the 18th Century, a musical form known as "Ope | | | Whilst the myth of the castrato is well documented it has never touched on the barbaric method used to create these 'heavenly' singers. |
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http://www.sonyclassics.com/farinelli/about/fcastrati.html
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| | Male Altos (and Sopranos) |
| | This class of singers is extinct although there is still just available a recording of the last of the performing castratos which sounds like distant caterwauling and is thererefore not helpful. | | | Audio Link at Internet Archive: Alessandro Moreschi ("the last castrato") singing the Bach/Gounod "Ave Maria" [MP3] | | | The Castrato and the Art of Singing in His Day |
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http://www.radix.net/~dalila/singers/counter.html
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| | Farinelli: Il Castrato |
| | The castrato was then subjected to up to ten years of intense musical studies at one of the conservatoires, which included a programme of music history, composition and harpsichord, as well as a daily dose of song. | | | The castrato legacy ended with Alessandro Moreschi in the early twentieth century, but its mysticism was immortalized by a series of recordings made of Moreschi and the Sistine Chapel Choir between 1902 and 1904. | | | Since the music associated with the castrato phenomenon required the vocal range of three and a half octaves, which no one possesses today, the producers initially explored the virtues of synthesis to then opt for the preferable alternative of utilizing two singers. |
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http://www.users.bigpond.com/apertout/Farinelli.htm
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| | Castrato arias |
| | I was wondering whether anyone knows details about the next CD project. | | | Castrato Arias -- Bad Kissingen July 15th by Klaus, 2001, Nov 20 |
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http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/music/bartoli/580.html?inline=-1
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| | castrato on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Publication: The Sunday Telegraph; Author: Robert Peston ; Source: NEWSPAPERS | | | Publication: The Sunday Telegraph; Author: Paula Byrne ; Source: NEWSPAPERS | | | The most celebrated castrato was Carlo Broschi Farinelli. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/castrato.asp
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| | Farinelli (1994) |
| | Trivia: Both male and female voices were combined to create the sound of Farinelli's singing voice. | | | Goofs: Factual errors: Men who were castratos had both singing voices and speaking voices that were very high. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109771
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - castrato |
| | Castrato, in music, a high male voice of unusual brilliance and power achieved by castration before puberty. | | | castration, eunuchs, male sopranos, most renowned castrato, opera | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/castrato.html
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| | Farinelli / Farinelli: il castrato / 1994 / film review / Gerard Corbiau |
| | In a similar vein to Milos Forman’s 1984 film Amadeus, Farinelli: il castrato introduces a modern cinema audience to the life of one of the musical luminaries of the 18th century. | | | Accompanied by his older brother Riccardo, who writes his music and helps to consummate his amorous entanglements, he is received by the courts of Europe. | | | (For those who might be wondering, a castrato is a male singer whose testicles were removed prior to puberty to prevent his larynx from developing, thereby preserving his angelic voice.) Like Amadeus, this film is awash with historical inaccuracies and uses spectacle and gloss as a substitute for serious drama and well-developed characterisation. |
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http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_Farinelli_rev.html
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| | Farinelli |
| | The first, at the "Image et son" in Neufchatel, Switzerland, carried out by Jean-Claude Gaberel, tried to recreate the melodic line of the castrato voice based on recordings of the two singers. | | | This was done by splicing the parts which could only be sung by the countertenor with those specific to the soprano. | | | The last castrato in the Western world, Alessandro Moreschi, recorded less than one hour's worth of singing on wax cylinders between 1902 and 1904. |
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http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/misc/farinelli.htm
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| | Learning Center NYC Opera |
| | With one possibly fraudulent exception (some early twentieth-century recordings by Alessandro Moreschi, an ancient retainer in the Sistine Chapel Choir who claimed to be a castrato), we have no recordings of castrati, and contemporary accounts of their singing are equivocal. | | | The castrato voice is imagined in increasingly fabulous terms; in the Farinelli film, it was generated by technological black arts, by mixing a soprano and a counter-tenor voice to create a literally impossible sound. | | | But then, there is that voice-the castrato voice, whose timbre and sound we cannot really know, and which, because of that very mystery, can be heavily burdened with subjective cultural fantasies. |
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http://www.nycopera.com/learning/resource/articles/article030.aspx?detect=yes
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| | Circumcision now, Castration then |
| | It is striking how well-forgotten the importance of the castrato in 17th and 18th century music has become. | | | The "golden age" of castrato singers (called "eunuchs" while training, and then "sopranists" and "contraltists") lasted from the beginning of the 17th Century to the beginning of the 20th, during which time castrati were admitted to the Papal Choir. | | | Gregorio Allegri was a castrato, and his famous Miserere was written for castrati to sing in the Sistine Chapel. |
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http://www.circumstitions.com/Castrati.html
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| | Singing /castrati - MozartForum |
| | The singer is a male who can sing close to the style of the castrati (I guess) | | | There are some Mozart examples at the site, but there are many others as well, Jommelli, Gluck, Vivaldi, etc. There is even a solfeggio by Guiseppe Aprile, the castrato. |
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http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=992
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| | "Farinelli" (Carlo Broschi) |
| | His reputation and fame has lasted despite the disappearance of castrato singers and the unique musical style dedicated to them known as "ope | | | The fact that Farinelli retired from public performance early in his career was unquestionably significant since Farinelli remained a success in the public imagination whilst many other castrato singers fell from their pedestals while still in the public eye. | | | Furthermore, it is said that in addition to his talent, physical beauty and wisdom, Farinelli possessed great humility. |
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http://www.sonyclassics.com/farinelli/about/ffarinelli.html
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| | Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Farnielli: Il Castrato |
| | Here is a drama that will stop you in your tracks and transport you to a phantasmagoric world where music, mystery, and magic hold sway. | | | This Oscar-nominated Belgian film, directed by Gerard Corbiau (The Music Teacher), examines the life of a hugely popular 18th century castrato. | | | Farinelli's singing leaves women swooning and eventually lands him a position in the Spanish court where he becomes a favorite of King Philip V. The singer's fate is linked to his older brother Riccardo, a composer, who tries to dominate him. |
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http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/moviereview/item_4979.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: castrato: Search Results Classical |
| | Moreschi - The Last Castrato ~ Various Artists (Artist) -- (Audio CD - October 1, 1999) | | | Castrato Arias From Rinaldo, Rodelinda, Et Al [Import] | | | Susanna, the Captain and the Castrato: Scenes from the Burney Salon, 1779-80 |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=classical&field-keywords=castrato
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| | `Farinelli' Makes for Limp Drama / Absurd film about famous castrato |
| | Directed by Gerard Corbiau, who won a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination for his efforts (come again?), ``Farinelli'' sets up its title character as the ``The Elephant Man'' of gender disorders. | | | Stripped of his manhood, but blessed with good cheekbones and terrific hair, Farinelli is the toast of Europe -- a celebrated castrato who sings like an angel, wears gorgeous plumage and sets women's loins on fire. | | | ``Farinelli''), an Italian castrato who lived from 1705 to 1782, ``Farinelli'' is bubble gum masquerading as art -- an absurd Italian import that wants to say something about the price of fame and of being different, but instead exploits its subject for cheap titillation. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/04/28/DD47620.DTL
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| | Farinelli: il castrato |
| | Farinelli (born Carol Broschi) was the legendary 18th century castrato singer who become one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 18th century. | | | But he will only sing what his brother composes, which holds his career back. | | | After this Carlo told his father he did not want to die, but his father told him never to withhold his voice from his older brother Riccardo. |
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http://johnb53.50megs.com/f/Farinelli.htm
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| | castrato |
| | castrato [Ital.,=castrated], a male singer with an artificially created soprano or alto voice, the result of castration in boyhood. | | | The combination of the larynx of a youth and the chest and lungs of a man produced a powerful voice of great range and unique sound. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0810793.html
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| | Sweet Corn Productions - Voice of an Angel |
| | Voice of an Angel: A Castrato Remembers utilizes authentic 18th-century costume and the period music of Glück, Haydn and Mozart. | | | An 18th-century castrato looks back upon his successful career as a male soprano. | | | Voice of an Angel was written and directed by Demian. |
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http://www.buddybuddy.com/sw-d08.html
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| | AT THE OPERA |
| | The phenomenon we know as Castrato first appeared during the Renaissance in Church Choirs, and in 1599 the castrato was officially admitted into the choir of Pope Clement | | | Women could not appear on stage in the Papal States, either, and soon the castrato made his appearance in Opera singing both male and female roles. | | | Moreschi, Alessandro (1858-1922), the last professional castrato, never sang in opera but was associated with the Sistine Chapel, and his voice has been preserved on record. |
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http://groups.msn.com/ATTHEOPERA/ilcastrato.msnw
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Farinelli: Il Castrato at Epinions.com |
| | Now, in case you haven't guessed it yet, a castrato is a man who has been castrated -- if it is done before the... | | | I first heard about Farinelli on NPR when they had someone on talking about how they created the illusion of a castrato singing. | | | Pros: Great period costumes and sets, miraculous digital reconstruction of the castrato voice, great music |
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http://www.epinions.com/mvie_mu-1061826/display_~reviews
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| | Excerpt from "The Castrato" |
| | [The Castrato is a fictionalized biography of Farinelli, probably the greatest castrato singer of all time. | | | At the height of the castrato tradition some five thousand boys were deprived of their manhood in a single year. | | | Goldman did a fine job of capturing the time and place, and his novel deserved a greater readership than it got before it went out of print. |
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http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/E/ea_213606excerpt_.htm
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| | Socrates, Butterfly McQueen, and the Castrato |
| | Nothing ever happens when you work for a Castrato. | | | Great ideas roll up to their door then crash and recede. | | | A few centuries ago, boys would be castrated so they could sing the high notes in the opera. |
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http://www.clickz.com/experts/archives/design/creat_strat/article.php/837391
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| | JORGE CANO A CONTEMPORARY "CASTRATO" |
| | Jorge fascinates the audience in all his performances with opera arias like the aria of The Queen of the Night (Mozart), written for a high female soprano or "Son qual Nave" (Hasse), written for the famous castrato, Farinelli. | | | Jorge tackles them with the exquisite natural talent of a contemporary "castrato". |
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http://www.tp4.rub.de/~ak/disc/young/jc/index_en.html
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| | NPR : THE GREAT CASTRATO FARINELLI, |
| | Performance Today, March 8, 1995 · The great castrato Farinelli, a major star in the 18th century when castratos still took the soprano parts in the musicals of the day, is the subject of a new film that opens next week. | | | And in today's show, Lynne Terry reports from Paris on the 20th-century technology that recreated that 18th-century sound. | | | "Farinelli, il Castrato," has already opened in Europe where it received rave reviews and won the prestigious Golden Globe award from the critics. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1021619
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