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Italy's castrati singers
When the highest notes arise from the deepest sighs: the tragic story of Italy's castrate singers.
“Alessandro Moreschi Angelo di Roma, Cantore nella Capella Sistina ” reads a tomb on the upper level of Rome’s Verano cemetery. A black-and-white photograph shows a man with an impressively large chest and unusually thick hair.
Moreschi was the last of the cantori evirati, Italian castrate singers. He joined the Sistine Chapel choir in However in Lorenzo Perosi, appointed to head the choir by Leo XIII in , convinced the pope not to hire any more castrati. “Those singers who, let us say, are 'imperfect' on a physical plane although complete as singers, are totally excluded from the Sistine Chapel,” a local newspaper reported, and concluded: “This is a victory for Maestro Perosi.”
At the same time Perosi, who referred to castrate singers as “abnormal men”, finally managed to force his predecess
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Alessandro Moreschi
Italian castrato singer (–)
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| Born | 11 November &#;() Monte Compatri, Latium, Papal States (now Latium, Italy) |
| Died | 21 April &#;() (aged&#;63) Rome, Italy |
| Alma&#;mater | Scuola di San Salvatore in Lauro |
| Occupation | Classical singer |
Alessandro Moreschi (11 November – 21 April ) was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings.[1]
Early life
[edit]Alessandro Moreschi was born on 11 November to Luigi Lorenzo Moreschi (–) and Rosa Maria Potelli, a Roman Catholic family in the town of Monte Compatri in the Papal States, near Frascati (Lazio).[citation needed] It is possible that he was born with an inguinal hernia, for which castration was still thought to be a cure in 19th-century Italy.[2] Another possibility is that he was castrated later, around , which would have been more in line with the centuries-old practice o
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Bibliography
Feldman, Martha. "Bibliography". The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, Berkeley: University of California Press, , pp.
Feldman, M. (). Bibliography. In The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (pp. ). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Feldman, M. Bibliography. The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.
Feldman, Martha. "Bibliography" In The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, Berkeley: University of California Press,
Feldman M. Bibliography. In: The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds. Berkeley: University of California Press; p
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