In a message dated 3/26/01 7:23:45 PM, lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
<< Even castrati were expected to sing with a
penetrating ring to the voice that women singers of that day could
only envy. >>
Lloyd,
There you go again, in an otherwise excellent post, saying that there were no
female singers with ringing voices at the time of the castrati. There's no
reason to believe that this is true--so why do you keep repeating this sexist
notion?
The evidence that I've read states very clearly that women singers of the
time were highly skilled technicians and artists who held their own on the
operatic stage alongside the castrati.
They may not have produced the same extraordinary volume or long breath, but
without the castrati's unnaturally enlarged chest cavity, neither could the
ungelded males of the day.
Judy
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