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Remains of Famed Castrato to Be Disinterred
By Carlo Vitali
MusicalAmerica.com
July 5, 2006

BOLOGNA – On July 12 at 8:30 a.m., a small host of sextons,
researchers and selected media will gather at La Certosa, the city's
main cemetery, for an unusual event: the disinterment of Carlo
Broschi, nicknamed Farinelli, the legendary castrato who spent the
last two decades of his relatively long life (1705-1782) in this old
university town. The Apulia-born singer found a second fatherland
here, officially gaining citizenship in 1732 and using it as a
comfortable haven for his retirement years.

Such writers as Charles Burney and Giacomo Casanova have left lively
accounts of his lavish, occasionally melancholy lifestyle in his
suburban villa, where he was visited frequently by friends, family
and admirers. Soon after his death, the greed of his heirs and the
radical social changes prompted by the French revolution and
Napoleon's regime scattered the bulk of his estate, notably his
impressive collection of artworks, instruments and musical papers.

Even his mortal remains were presumed lost in the destruction, back
in 1796, of the Capuchin monastery and church of Santa Croce, on the
hills south of downtown. Much later, on March 30, 1995, journalist
Claudio Santini wrote an article for the local paper "Il Resto del
Carlino," announcing the discovery of Farinelli's second grave,
sitting completely unnoticed in La Certosa (for images, click here.)

The Latin inscription on the classic-looking tombstone states that
his corpse was relocated there in 1810, care of his loving grand-
niece Carlotta Pisani Broschi who, surviving her grand-uncle until
1850, disposed by testament to rejoin him in the same grave. A
restoration of the dilapidated monument ensued in 2000, thanks to
the joint efforts of various organizations led by Centro Studi
Farinelli, the independent learned society founded in 1998 by a
group of Bologna-based scholars, and presently including members
from France, Germany, Spain, Australia and the USA.

The same Centro Studi, with financial support from the Florentine
publisher Alberto Bruschi, is now sponsoring a further step, that's
to say exploring the cavity at the foot of said tombstone to perform
bio-medical research on the remains, if any are left, of the famed
singer. The scientific management of the project is entrusted to the
Universities of Pisa and Bologna, more exactly to teams led by Prof.
Gino Fornaciari and Prof. Maria Giovanna Belcastro, respectively.
Fornaciari, professor of pathology and history of medicine at Pisa,
is also heading the group that has been granted permission to exhume
47 members of the Medici ruling family in Florence and is an
international authority in the field. Belcastro, a professor of
physical anthropology, is superintendent of the University
Laboratory of Bioarchaeology and Forensic Osteology at Bologna.

Asked what they are expecting to find, Belcastro
responded, "Anything, from an empty hole to the full skeleton of
Farinelli attired in the majestic white cloak of the knightly
Spanish order of Calatrava and sundry paraphernalia, such as sword
and jeweled star." As a specialist in a specialist in osteology,
Belcastro's main interest is, so to say, close to the bone. Even
after several centuries, bones can tell much about the lives of the
deceased. "We want to see what did they eat, what kind of diseases
they had. The skull, if decently preserved, can help us to
reconstruct what their faces looked like."

That may prove of crucial importance in assessing the authenticity
and/or actual likeness of the many Farinelli portraits. Belcastro
will also be looking for ways to explain the singer's vocal
type. "Removal of the testicles results in the absence of male-type
growth of the larynx, which may appear very small, with the vocal
cords as short as in a female soprano. Yet, despite that, the
resonating chambers provided by the pharynx and oral cavity, as well
as a fully adult chest capacity, were probably responsible for the
unique vocal prowess of some castrati." Besides natural talent and
hard training, one might add.

Following photography and measurements at the site, the grave's
contents will go through an array of lab investigations -- X-rays,
CAT scans, DNA sampling and the like – during the next year, first
in Bologna, then in Pisa. Access to the materials has been granted
to a number of foreign specialists, including Prof. David M. Howard,
an acoustic engineer based at the University of York often involved
in both forensic and music analysis. His most recent feat was the
electronic recreation of the sound of a castrato singing "Ombra mai
fu" by Handel, as will be shown in the Francesca Kemp documentary
film "The Castrati," which next runs on BBC4 July 9th. All that
combined competence is obviously fostering great expectations.
Provided, of course, that the bones of the self-styled "tall
Farinelli" are still there.