For anyone who's interested, there's a good article in the June 2000
edition of "Fra Noi" (the Italian-American newspaper in Chicago) about
the castrati phenomenom. I'm sorry, but I don't know if they have a
website which publishes articles, my boss at my "day-job" passes them
along to me to read. If you can't find anything on the web, e-mail me
privately & I'll snail-mail a copy to you.
Pat
dgcsorcmgr@j...
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:51 +0100 (BST) velluti@c... writes:
> 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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