Sunday, August 31, 2008

'Lustrini per il regno dei cieli' by Luca Scarlini

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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