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April 28, 2005

An Ancient Career In Music

Seems like a big sacrifice to hit the high notes.

Basically, the art of castration was used regularly by the Roman Catholic Church between 1658 and 1870 to artificially create a male soprano. For those of you out there who have listened to the CD, The Last Castrato. you know the uniqueness of this sound. Alessandro Moreschi was the last of the castrati and is the only recording of a castrato ever made.

 

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Posted on April 28, 2005 11:25 PM by castra221.
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