At 10:14 AM 3/21/01 +0000, Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote: At 10:14 AM 3/21/01 +0000, Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote: >It also explains Moreschi's insistence on bringing his chest to A4 >(few women in classical music do this), even though his break sounded >grotesque... perhaps it was much smoother when he was younger? Or >maybe the break was just accepted in that era (like the awful >scooping he does)?
I agree with others who have posted that this was partly stylistic. Remember, too, that although this castration was performed on boys with *promising* voices, there was no guarantee that they would all develop into top-level singers. They were not all Farinelli's, even as not every tenor performing today is at the same level as Bjoerling or Pavarotti, for example.
Leslie
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