Well,τhe theaters back then had way worst things that a girl just reading a book,to be accurate. The strict rules to attemt an opera are more modern.

So did I, I think if I was the girl, I would have hidden from embarrassment lol.

@@kathyleendriver7283 But considering that this was the woman he married later in the film it made it pretty sweet that he locked eyes on her, and her on him during the majority of the remaining performance. Like he was singing for her.

I've read somewhere that in early times concerts lasted up to 8 hours! With several symphonies, arias, & concertos being performed..., people also ate & drank & "whatever goes" at these marathon events!

@@lucindamobley5492 I've yet to watch the movie, I've only watched the music videos and was instantly drawn to it.

Riccardo and Carlo Broschi.

@@infundomaris sorry about the wrong spelling . I truly believe they were the best of of they're time 💐

@@jillb2161 their* (of of?)

Suo fratello era una zecca parassita e di cacca

@@pierreb2320 Noted , apologies 🌲

The explotator of the colonies .

That's somehow crazy and fascinating!

Elsalohengrin 😂😂😂 I liked u remained so polite actually what could happen behind the palquets May be even much more than you describe 😅! Usually though when the titole role castrato was singing there was much attention than when whomever else was singing. Indeed nobody loved sorbetto's arias a part from the sorbetto Itself and this says a lot in respect of what u mentioned before 😅

Church services in the Middle Ages, even in the cathedrals, were the same.

To be fair the "castrati" where mostly very poor kids that parents would often kick out of home cause they didn't have enough food to give them. The alternatives would have very likely to die of hunger in some back alley, or being enslaved as worker into some farm or mine to earn as much money to be able to buy a couple of pieces of bread every week.

Unfortunately, the Vatican got away with it...Even years after it was Illegal

You are mistakenly viewing history through a 21st-century frame of reference. In those days many of these boys came from dirt poor families. A son becoming a castrato was a chance to flee bitter poverty for many a family in those days.

@@Leviwosc FYI: Farenelli came from a rather affluent family and, because of his exceptional voice, was Mutalated in order to achieve Higher Status...& it still doesn't excuse the church for propagating the practice once illegal.

@@danieldumas7361 There were more castrati than Farinelli. By far not all those boys came from rich families.

people say its inaccurate because its based only on loose events but i think it really gives people an idea of the lives of castratos

The whole thing is sang with vibrato (?)

Yeah, it isn't trilled.

Присутствует компьютерная обработка. Может ли человек так спеть?

Do you know name this movie?

@@InGodWeTrust3_16 Farinelli:Il Castrato

@@MadameWesker thank you, I found)

Alto giove Is Indeed One of the most breathtaking masterworks of Nicola Antonio Porpora ❤ I agree with u

LOL 😂

Me too give me chills

There is no singer behind this voice in the film - it is the combined voice of 2 real singers, male's and feamale's (countertenor Derek Lee Ragin and soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska and a countertenor, Derek Lee Ragin). Here is how voice of real castrato sounds kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbKaqcmi06qUp6c.html (the last real castrato Alessandro Moreschi)

Thank you George. I know that Farenelli's voice was computer manipulated from different voices. Personally, I don't like real Castrato voices - but this rendition falls in the realm of the most sublime music ever.

@@pieterodendaal3988 I completely agree with you/

@@pieterodendaal3988 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It was combined with female vocal and tech

Me. Found it really creepy but not beautiful.

that's scary

@@blancaflor-daninmusica2120 where can i listen to it

Listen to any song by Michael Jackson, and there you have it.

@@Cerberusballs lmao rude but kinda true xd

😁

No waaaaaaay!

Hahahahahahahaha, good one.

Hahaha nice one..

lmaooooo

Тогда это было сплошь и рядом. Сейчас современные контратеноры умеют обходиться без этого, к счастью.

Жизнь не стоит и гроша, если она прожита зря.

Propos anachroniques Il faut se remettre dans son temps

Literalmente lo castraron en la iglesia para que conservara la VOZ prodigiosa.

Женился бы и запил! Так хоть пел ;))))))

No es bel canto, es estilo Barroco. belcanto no se hizo de moda hasta despues que los castratos pasaron de moda.

@@geekbaritone os castratos trousseram ao bel canto alguns excesso em ornamentação, improvisos livres (vocalizes) e a nível de cena o exagero ou a luxuria das perfomances. Obs o bel canto seguiu até século XIX.

No recuerdo el nombre.

Подскажите ,будьте добры, название фильма.

Cual es el nombre de la película

@@karlamerlos378 Farinelli

La película se llama Farinelli, en los tiempos de H F Haendel

Excepto que a los monaguillos del coro los castraban para que conservaran la voz de niños.

GO MILK A DANG COW.PARTY POOPER WHAT CAN YOU SING?THANK YOU.

@@arturocarrillo8903 I think the comment referred to the part when Farinelli and thus the entire saloon was waiting for the woman to put her book and her rattling tea cup away

Hanna Karlström yes I was

Arturo Carrillo are you daft? See comment below

He did it so politely though.

Derek L Regine and Ewa Malas Godlewska

Спасибо за перевод.

XD fue castrado claro que tendrá buena voz

Hoy en la era moderna podemos darnos el lujo de leer y escuchar musica al mismo tiempo. Antes habia que ir a la opera, esperar hasta el carnaval o tener un cuarteto privado, para pasar un buen rato y disfrutar de las melodias. Digamos que vivir en este siglo tiene sus privilegios.

@@mateocobo9979 No todos los castrados tienen buena voz. Antiguamente se castraba a los niños que mostraban talento.

@@monainfame Discrepo la voz simplemente se la tiene que trabajar, y el objetivo era lograr voces muy finas, al casttarles de jóvenes impiden el desarrollo de la voz gruesa y la vuelven más fina de lo que eran

Es un sin huevos mija

This is Broschi, not Handel.

@@operachic9845 merci.

very sad

That’s the truth

The song was written by his brother (the director in this scene) for him in real life. The voice in this film was a fusion of a countertenor and a soprano. We will never know how they actually sounded like. This scene was made to show you how it may have been back then. He was a superstar of his time but only for a short period of time. He gave it all up to sing exclusively for the king of Spain that suffered from depression his singing lifted his spirits back up when he was not feeling well.

24-26 seconds

38 seconds between breaths, 26 seconds for the single note.

A5

26 seconds Farinelli was a man of a quind

@@ThePapasmurf1946 Sure beats Bill Withers, "Lovely Day". 18 seconds and it wasn't faked.

Augusto the lyrics you wrote are almost perfect apart from addoro. The correct Word Is Adoro in italian. I've been so glad to sing this aria right this morning❤

Im so grateful to my singing teacher Raffaella Milanesi to have been able to bring me that far ❤

Singing Farinelli's arias Is such a great Joy for the Heart of any soprano voice ❤ Im so grateful for this gift 🌹

People still do that at events and its a pet peeve of mine.

In fact, people goes to opera like who goes to a social meeting: they talk, eat, laugh... And not listened to much the music 😂 (Sorry for my english)

No, I think his face is more like: “Lascia ch'io piangia, fottuta stronza!!!” plus cold sight. XD

@@andrealopezdelgado66 😂😂😂

Went to a bar and a younger woman sat alone reading for hours, drove me crazy.

Bellissima amica

así mismo es, y pensar que ellos eran preferidos por el publico , imagínate a Joan Sutherland tratando de abrirse camino en esa época

That’s his brother.... not his boyfriend

@John Smith no, and even if he was, the whole point is that is dick is gone. Back then, male singers were the highest point of swooning

@@madelinejosephineganser617 they didn't chop anything off, just stopped them from producing sperm

@@madelinejosephineganser617 oh he still had his dick. Just no testicles. Hence, no voice change. If you saw the movie, he hooked up plenty!

Opera in those days especially in Venice where there were 20 public opera houses was a form of popular entertainment where people went to hear their favorite castrato and female opera singers -people often didn't care for the recitation parts which they found boring but were only interested in the spectacular songs (arias)like this one -if you owned an opera box you and your friends could close the screen and play a game of cards and only listen to the music when it came to your favorite song. Sounds crude to us but actually prostitutes used to advertise their services at these venues and many men would take advantage by closing off the screen and doing you know what! Later on reformers of opera like Gluck put an end to this kind of thing by writing operas with more compelling plots and with fewer trills and fewer vocal gymnastics!

It's a combination of soprano and alto mixed in the recording room, they didn't know how to recreate a castrato's voice otherwise. But I don't think they really reached the goal. Castratos voices had the pure tone of voce bianca, a child's voice, with the power of a man's.