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Many musical expressions have passed into everyday language. The series "Words and Notes" proposes to come back to the meaning and origin of some of them!
The idea of castrating children to preserve their voice from moulting seems totally cruel to us. Yet it is a common practice from the end of the 16th century to provide churches with singers, but also the opera stages of the 17th century.
Vocal virtuosity has benefited greatly from these sacrifices, but the price is high: countless children sacrificed, heavy medical and psychological consequences. If some, like Farinelli, achieve immortal glory, most of these atypical singers remain in the shadows.
The last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, left his post at the Vatican only in 1913!
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April 2020.
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Keyword: Castrat, Farinelli, Carestini, Moreschi, Caffarelli, opera, aria da capo, Sistine Chapel, musicology, baroque music