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2. 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 .

3. 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 ...

4. Gaspare Pacchierotti - Wikipedia

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   Details of his early life are scarce. It is possible that he studied with Mario Bittoni, maestro di cappella in the cathedral of his home city, Fabriano.Under the stage name of Porfirio Pacchierotti, he made his début in Baldassare Galuppi's opera Le nozze di Dorina at the Teatro dei Nobili in Perugia during the carnival season of 1759, playing, as young castrati often did, a female role ...

5. Cross-dressing in music and opera - Wikipedia

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   Some male operatic roles originally written to be sung in the voice range of castrati (men castrated in boyhood, whose voices never descended into the normal male register) are now usually cast with female singers in male costume. Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is unusual in that it features a female character who cross-dresses as part of the ...

6. How to watch 'Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands' - AOL

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   When we think of boy bands, acts like the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC typically come to mind, but the new documentary film Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands is a look at the history of boy ...

7. Farinelli (film) - Wikipedia

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   Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and starring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, and Jeroen Krabbé.

8. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang: Masayoshi Son is recasting ... - AOL

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   SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son has pledged to invest $100 billion in the US over the next four years. Masa's longtime friend and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang weighs in on the pledge.

9. ‘The Sims’ and ‘The Sims 2’ Get Re-Release From EA to ...

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   “The Sims” and “The Sims 2” are being re-released by Electronic Arts in celebration of the popular life-simulation franchise’s 25th anniversary. The games will be offered together in ...