I don't know how to link this but you should read the
article and listen to the recording.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4853432.stm
BBC has on their website today a recording of the last
castrato. It was recorded in 1902 on a gramaphone.
Eerie voice, but kind of hypnotic so I can understand
their appeal to the 17th and 18th century audiences.
There's no way of knowing if this guy was good or not
- he's the only one ever recorded and and that was 100
years or so after the heyday of the castrati.
He certainly sounds interesting to me. And in his pic
this 44 year old man looks no older than 30. Amazing
what happens when a man's body never has known
testosterone.
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