castrati

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• The Little Knife Lives

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks Stuff You Missed in History Class — Authority: 107
  An article in Slate yesterday on the castrati caught my eye. I remember the first time I learned about the castrati, from a professor who guest-taught one of my classes. She lectured on Farinelli, who some consider the greatest Italian castrato of them all. He and his three-octave range became very famous, and he ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Sound of Sacrifice

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  Few men can reach the notes, and few women have the lung capacity to manipulate them. Most of these arias have not been heard since the deaths of the castrati for whom they were written. Mezzosoprano Cecilia Bartoli has released an album entitled Sacrificium . The album is a compilation of 17th-century arias ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Harems and Mara Beboos

  
  Wanderlust & Pixie Dust — Authority: 115
  Harem. The World Behind The Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier.  This fascinating book is so chock full of interesting tidbits its difficult to know where to begin.  Maybe Ill just start off talking about the photos I posted (in no particular order) and see where this leads me. 3 women sit below without their veils in a ...
  5 weeks ago

• Nutless Wonders

  
  Daniel Stephen Johnson — Authority: 117
  Okay so heres the deal. There are a bunch of blogs with a bunch of trivia questions. The trivia questions have to do with Sacrificium , Cecilia Bartolis crazy new album of music for written for the castrati. Type all the answers into this website , and SOMETHING AMAZING WILL HAPPEN. (Yeah, I dont know.) Heres ...
  6 weeks ago

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