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2. Alessandro Moreschi - Wikipedia

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   Around Easter 1914 he met Viennese musicologist Franz Haböck, author of Die Kastraten und ihre Gesangskunst (The Castrati and their Art of Singing, published in Berlin in 1927), who had planned to cast Moreschi in concerts reviving the repertoire of the great eighteenth-century castrato Farinelli. However, Moreschi (now fifty-five years old ...

3. Giovanni Battista Velluti - Wikipedia

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   Giovanni Battista Velluti as a young man. Giovanni Battista Velluti, colloquially "Giambattista" (28 January 1780 – 22 January 1861), was an Italian castrato.Considered "the last great castrato", [1] he had a reputation of being something of a diva, with some singers refusing to appear with him.

4. Castrato - Wikipedia

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   A castrato (Italian; pl.: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity .

5. Horrifying footage appears to show Russian captors castrating ...

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   A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the ...

6. Nicholas Clapton - Wikipedia

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   In 2006 he presented the documentary Castrato for BBC Four television, and curated the exhibition Handel and the Castrati at the Handel House Museum, London. [4] His second book, Budapest, City of Music, was published in March 2009. [5]

7. Castration - Wikipedia

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   Castrati include Farinelli, Senesino, Carestini, and Caffarelli. The last true castrato was Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922) who served in the Sistine Chapel Choir. [115] It was not until the late 19th century that the Roman Catholic Church officially condemned the production of castrati.

8. Matteuccio - Wikipedia

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   Born in San Severo, Sassano was the son of the widow Livia Tommasino and Giuseppe Sassano.Nothing is known about his early childhood. [2] A barber from his hometown, who presumably performed the fateful orchiectomy procedure, had contacts in Naples with one Alessandro de Liguoro, a barber with a shop near the palazzo of the Apostolic Nuncio on Via Toledo; the latter picked up little Matteo ...

9. 'Yellowstone' Is Finally Filming Last Episodes After Kevin ...

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   Yellowstone’s last six episodes are finally officially filming after months of delays caused by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.. Paramount Network announced on Monday, May 20, that Yellowstone ...