How To Use Castrato In A Sentence
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Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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Thus, while sound has been, and continues to be, understood as too material, not fully able to decouple from the realm of the material, fantasies of a disembodied voice increasingly defined the imagination for the castrato singer on the part of English listeners and readers.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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In many ways, the castrato is the corporeal manifestation of Longinus 'theory of the sublime, in which hypsous requires a synthesis of nature and art that cannot be reduced either to capacity or to will.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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Ispahan is mine own country and I have there a cousin, the daughter of my father’s brother, whom I loved from my childhood and cherished with fond affection; but a people stronger than we fell upon us in foray and taking me among other booty, cut off my yard58 and sold me for a castrato, whilst I was yet a lad; and this is how I came to be in such case. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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For, the castrato is not found but made (and self made), made to be extraordinary.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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His falsetto voice captures the chimerical sound of the castrati with eerie accuracy, something that becomes clear when we hear a scratchy recording of the last castrato, Moreschi, made at the turn of the 20th century.
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From the late seventeenth century the central male operatic role (primo uomo) in opera seria was sung by a castrato.
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I thought he was a 'castrato' who, as is the custom in Rome, performed all the parts of a prima donna.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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The recital concludes with a rarely heard aria with cello obbligato from Arianna, written for the soprano castrato Carlo Scalzi.
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The sole extant example of the castrato voice dates from the dawn of recorded sound, and the singer in question was advanced in years at the time.
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The body of the castrato is exceptional in part because of its lack — it cannot reproduce.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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If Handel wanted a young lover then he wrote for castrato or female mezzo-soprano.
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Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture.
Harper's Magazine
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Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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For this recording, taped in 1978, Raymond Leppard gave the castrato role to mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, and the alto role to countertenor James Bowman.
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She made rapid progress in music, and at the end of six months she felt sufficient confidence in herself to sign an engagement with a theatrical manager who took her to Vienna to give her a 'castrato' part in one of Metastasio's operas.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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Such an income would not only have benefited the castrato but, more importantly, the family that castrated him.
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A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
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( "What Will I Do Without Euridice?"), I was sold forever, even though Orfeo ed Euridice featured a so-called "trouser" lead role, a part originally written for a castrato, but these days performed by a female mezzo-soprano in drag.
Jackie Fuchs: Why Opera Rocks
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As Gillen Wood argues, for example, Francis Burney's representation of the experience of listening to a castrato at the opera in Evelina and Cecilia is conspicuously disembodied — any and all description of the castrato's corporeality is absent, being transposed into the sound of his sublime voice.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
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A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
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Although their roles as parasitic castrators has been documented, relatively little is known about the biology of ciliate parasites in mayflies.
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The mother presented to, me her other son, likewise very good-looking, but more manly than the 'castrato', although younger.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 02: a Cleric in Naples
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A male singer who has, between the approximate age of six and twelve, undergone a surgical procedure to impede the "breaking" of his voice that would normally take place during puberty, the castrato is a male soprano, soprano meaning, literally, higher.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
