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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 .
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Carlo suddenly falls ill with a fever during which Riccardo repeats a story he has told Carlo since he was a child: Carlo had been injured in a fall from a horse, and the castration surgery was necessary to save his life. In Dresden, Handel meets Carlo just before the curtain rises and tells him the King George II wants him to sing. Unnerved by ...
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 ...
The Valesians were a Christian sect that advocated self-castration.The sect was founded by Valens (of Bacetha Metrocomia; [1] not to be confused with the Roman Emperor of the same name), an Arabian philosopher who established the sect sometime in the second century AD. [2]
Atto Melani (30 March 1626, in Pistoia – 4 January 1714, in Paris) was a famous Italian castrato opera singer, also employed as a diplomat and a spy. [ 1 ] Life
Alyssa Ciccotto went viral on TikTok for sharing a video of her 4-year-old son, Joseph, who completed a social media challenge to near perfection during Christmas Eve dinner that ended in jaw ...
"Va tacito e nascosto" (Italian; translation, "Silently and stealthily") is an aria written for alto castrato voice in act 1 of George Frideric Handel's opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, composed in 1724 to a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym. Sung by the character Julius Caesar, it features extensive solos for natural horn.