Hi, List.
Some years after shooting the film, the director came to Brazil just to see
Edson Cardeiro singing live, since he might have used him instead of merging
the 2 voices. Does anyone there know Edson Cordeiro?
Bye,
Caio Rossi
> This is, of course, "Farinelli, il castrato"; 1990's early: an
Italian-Franco-Belgian production; it
> purports to tell the story of the great castrato Carlo Broschi
(Farinelli); wildly inaccurate in the
> main, though a few of the stories are intact; for example, Farinelli's
famous vocal duel with the
> trumpeter. The brother mentioned was the composer Riccardo, who was
prolific, and his arias
> were used in the film; but nothing is really known about the brothers
sharing sexual favours
> with their admirers !!
> Farinelli did NOT cause Handel to have a stroke, either.
> The film was lavishly staged and "titillating"; and, in order to produce
the castrato sound, two
> voices, those of the soprano Ewa Mallas Godlewska and the countertenor
Derek Lee Ragin
> were "morphed" electronically. A CD was issued with the film soundtrack.
>
> Do, please, have a look at my new web site: same name, but modified and
enlarged!
> Elsa
>
> Elsa Scammell,
> Church and Operatic castrati.
> http://www.cix.co.uk/~velluti
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