Barbier, P: World of the Castrati

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Patrick Barbier's entertaining and authoritative book is the first full study of the subject in the context of the baroque period. Covering the lives of more than sixty singers from the end of the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, he blends history and anecdote as he examines their social origins and backgrounds, their training and debuts, their brilliant careers their relationship with society and the Church, and their decline and [...] castrati became a legend that still fascinates us today. Thousands flocked to hear and see these singing hybrids - part man, part woman, part child - who portrayed virile heroes on the operatic stage, their soprano or contralto voices weirdly at variance with their clothes and bearing. The sole surviving scratchy recording tells us little of the extraordinary effect of those voices on their audiences - thrilling, unlike any sound produced by the normal human voice.Illustrated with photographs and engravings, the book ranges from the glories of patronage and adulation to the darker side of a fashion that exploited the sons of poor families, denied them their manhood and left them, when they were old, to decline into poverty and loneliness. It is a story that will intrigue opera-lovers and general readers alike, superbly told by a writer who has researched his subject with the thoroughness of a true enthusiast.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780285634602
ISBN-10:	0285634607
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barbier, Patrick
Hersteller:	Profile
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	224 x 145 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Barbier
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.09.1998
Gewicht:	0,408 kg

Artikel-ID: 131604537

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780285634602
ISBN-10:	0285634607
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barbier, Patrick
Hersteller:	Profile
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	224 x 145 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Barbier
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.09.1998
Gewicht:	0,408 kg