Lustrini per il regno dei cieli. Ritratti di evirati cantori
by Luca Scarlini
Bollati Boringhieri, 2008
Five portraits, from various angles, of famous European castrati.
* video "Castrato" BBC special
* trailer of the film Farinelli by Gerard Corbiau
* video Bach/Gounod's 'Ave Maria' performed by Alessandro Moreschi, the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century
* trailer of the Philippe Jaroussky's album "Carestini, the story of a castrato", in collaboration with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée; with extracts of two arias by Gluck, "Sperai vicino il lido" and Porpora, "Tu che d'ardir m'accendi"
* site MaleSopranos.com, a social networking site that focuses on the high male voice
* video interview with the writer L. S. talking about his own career, blogs etc.
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