Hello everyone!<br>I'm a new member of this forum - in fact I mainly became a member to post a rather tricky question. <br>I love baroque opera and I also love...
You know, of course, that countertenors in the Baroque were sometimes mistaken for castrati? (See Thomas Coryat's comments about music making in Venice)<br>I...
It is possible to hear some real castrati. There was one in the movie "Dangerous Liasons" and also there is a CD of the Alessandro Moreschi. Neither sounds...
Hello Felice,<br><br>You wrote that Marilyn Horne singing male part is much more virile than a countertenor. In my opinion, she's much more virile than a ...
Hello guys! <br>I can sense the slight disapproval - maybe I shouldn't have posted such a question here, since this is a countertenor forum. <br>However, I do...
I hate to say it, but IMHO neither one of the above mentioned examples would give a very good idea of what a Farinelli might have sounded like. To me, the ...
Hello Felice,<br><br>Tako is right. It's still possible to here castrati and the castrato in the "Dangerous liaisons" he mentioned is still available on CD at...
Dear Mary,<br><br>I've listened to Moreschi and Nascimento's records and they sound very similar. They sound like castrati. And Farninelli, want it or not, ...
This is, in a sense, a reply to all these postings !<br>Opinions about the countertenor singing (chiefly) alto castrato roles reveal subjective judgements; ...
Again: my point of view here; to my mind Nascimento and Moreschi sound quite different, and this may give some credence to my previous longer comment.It is all...
I must echo many of the comments made by the other posters in response to your "difficult question." Historically, castrati and falsettists were confused with...
There seems no way to "save" a message if one goes -off line ! <br>Yes, I agree with David; and I must add that we are lucky to have so much choice among...
One more question: <br>in a big opera house the tonal volume of countertenors seems to be a problem. Anyone ever noticed this? Way up in the opera here (which...
"One more question: in a big opera house the tonal volume of countertenors seems to be a problem."<br>Only if we demand an non-HIP approach. Opera houses were...
"If we fail to associate the voice of the castrated male with virility, it is because we fail to make a connection with the trumpet." John Nelson said that...
Self-evident, I would have thought, if I may be <br>permitted to intrude (yet again) ! Countertenors (tho' not necessarily called by that name) have existed...
Hello Elsa!<br>Please intrude all the time :) )- I can see that you are very well informed!<br>I've been teaching history of music for 1 year now and 17th and...
Hello Elsa,<br>I forgot to ask about your book that you said was going to be published in 2002. <br>I also seem to have trouble accessing your website - is ...
Thank you for your interest; I fear, owing to my chronic physical ill-health, it will be the end of 2002 or just after !<br>Odd about my web site; I cannot ...
>> There seems no way to "save" a message if one goes -off line ! <<<br><br>After losing some long posts in the past, I now do two things to avoid...
Hi Felice or Angela,<br><br>You wrote ... shouldn't have posted such a question here, since this is a countertenor forum.However, I do prefer women in "high...
>> "If we fail to associate the voice of the castrated male with virility... <<<br><br>Perhaps we should start being clear about what we mean by ...
The larger the crop of falsettists grows, the more variety we hear in volume as well. Few singers (including females and lower-voiced males) are loud enough to...
Hello everyone!<br>I guess I had made it sufficiently clear that when I use the term "virility" I apply it to both female and male voices and take it to ...
Dear Horvallis,<br><br>I have the Moreschi CD and when I listen past the surface noise etc, I find that I do like his voice, as I have already stated. It ...
Excuse my intrusion once more, but I have Arno Raunig's CD, with "Al dolor"; it is indeed a remarkable piece of virtuosity.<br><br>It is on a CD called ...
>> ...I've just seen a performance of "Giulio Cesare" (haha, how fitting).... <<<br><br>SF Opera will do Cesare this summer. I'm looking forward to...
>> Arno Raunig's CD... "Farinelli Arien"; produced by Caffarelli Productions: CAFFA CD 002 <<<br><br>Thanks for the info. I'll have to look for...
Dear Mary,<br><br><br>You wrote :<br><br>> The only time that I have heard Nacimento's voice was in the movie, and of course it was a very familiar aria, ...
I posted this on Orfeo - it covers the topic of the size of castrati voices versus falsetto voices.<br><br>Dear all, <br><br>Recent debates have occured in ...
