Over 250 years after Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice presented opera in a new way, an acrobatic staging aims to do the same. Iestyn Davies, whose Orpheus will be amid the tumblers, dancers and acrobats, ...
For a solid portion of musical history, castrato singers or ‘castrati’ had a prominent role in operas, churches and courts across Europe. But why were young boys forced to undergo the gruesome ...
No one paid a higher price for celebrity than the male soprano of the 18th-century, those greatest of European stars, whose fame in their own time was proportionally greater even than that of George ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. To many modern listeners, the idea of castrated male singers singing soprano roles in 17th- and 18th-century operas, ...
THEY were described as perfect singing machines. Now the body of Farinelli, the most famous castrato opera singer, is to be exhumed to learn how he achieved such dulcet tones. “Farinelli was more ...
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