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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: male alti, counter-tenors, castrati, and so on
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:33:09 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Dec23.012124.25043@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec23.150355.24969@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.150355.24969@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde) writes:
-
- >Related question: what did a castrato sound like: a soprano or a countertenor?
-
- Neither. They sounded like boy sopranos, but the voices were
- powered by adult lungs. Moreschi, the only castrato to have
- made recordings, sounds quite unlike any other singer I've
- ever heard. In _The Record of Singing_, Michael Scott claims
- that Luisa Tetrazzini had something of a castrato sound, and
- Toscanini said that the young Ethel Merman sounded just like
- the castrati in the Vatican choir he'd heard as a boy.
-
- Arne
-