Il castrato come figura retorica (trad. it. di Tommaso Sabbatini) by Martha Feldman

“…This essay argues that the fundamentally rhetorical nature of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century aria was embodied in the figure of the castrato, who delivered an idealized form of Ciceronian oratory designed to move audiences using the precepts of invenzione, variazione, and decoro.  …”
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Voicing the Third Gender – The Castrato Voice and the Stigma of Emasculation in Eighteenth-century Society by Marianne Tråvén

“…This article will investigate the castrato voice in eighteenth-century music on a scale from sound to unsound, using contemporary statements. …”
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KASTRATEN, DIE PRIMI UOMINI DER EUROPÄISCHEN OPERNBÜHNEN by Miklós FEKETE

Subjects: “…castrato, primo uomo, sacrifice, opera seria, opera composers, castrato roles, pants role, falsettist, countertenor.…”
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La construction du genre : contraltos et castrats dans la production lyrique haendélienne by Pierre Degott

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Un’occasione perduta: lo studio anatomico e fisiologico dei musici castrati by Marco Beghelli

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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

Subjects: “…Castrato…”
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Orphée baro/queer by Raphaëlle Legrand

Subjects: “…castrato…”
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Review of Roger Freitas. 2009. Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani.... by Emily Wilbourne

“…Roger Freitas firmly situates his book, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani, as biography, yet the text aspires to something more: both the blurb and the introduction promise to clarify ‘what music at this time actually was.’ …”
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Italienische Musiker am Hof des Emmerich Esterházy in Preßburg und die Kontakte mit der Kaiserlichen Hofmusikkapelle in Wien by Ladislav Kačic

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Zwischen Venedig, Rom und Versailles – italienische Kastraten auf Abwegen? by Margret Scharrer

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Les implications du travestissement dans I Capuleti e i Montecchi de Vincenzo Bellini by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…According to baroque Italian operatic conventions, the part of the lover should have been performed by a castrato so that his voice could merge perfectly with that of the soprano heroine. …”
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«Qualche presa di Farinello». Carlo Broschi in Spagna by Stefano Mazzoni

“…The essay reconstructs and interprets the Spanish years of the most famous castrato of all time in a historicizing and contestualizing perspective. …”
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Multidisciplinariedad en la investigación arquitectónica: retos del arquitecto técnico en un caso de estudio en Almería = Multidisciplinarity in architectural research: challenges... by L. Jiménez López, I. Martínez Pérez

“…Además, hay que tener en cuenta las normas urbanísticas de los ayuntamientos y sus ordenanzas municipales e incluso el registro de la propiedad establecida por el Castrato, además de las normas y reglamentos autonómicos, especialmente las relativas a incendios, ruido y medioambiente. …”
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Farinelli or Concerning the Vocal Derivations of the Old Custom of Castration by Óscar BOTTASSO

“…The film presents some of the passages of the life of Carlo Broschi, the famous Farinelli, a castrato who delighted so many lovers of the settecentista opera. …”
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La doppia prospettiva della S capovolta in Sarrasine di Balzac by Giulia Scuro

“…The story is about a castrato named Zambinella, and a portrait situated into Lanty’s house is the pretext to explain his relation with the family. …”
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La amistad entre Carlo Broschi Farinelli y el marqués de la Ensenada a través de la diplomacia europea, la iconografía, la propaganda, la historia y la literatura by Daniel Martín Sáez

“…Los tres conectan el poder del ministro con el castrato Carlo Broschi Farinelli en la época de Fernando VI, asegurando que ambos colaboraron a través de la ópera y el escuadrón del Tajo para conseguir diversos favores. …”
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Respectus Philologicus, 2009 Nr. 15 (20) by Gabija Bankauskaitė

“…OUR TRANSLATIONS Brigitte Peucker (USA). The Castrato’s Voice: Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons. …”
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Francesco Borosini (*Ca. 1690, † Nach 1756) : Leben und Karriere eines Tenors im Frühen Settecento by Emilia Pelliccia

“…Francesco Borosini (* ca. 1690, † after 1756) was one of the most significant singers of the first half of the 18th century and managed to obtain roles and arias comparable to those of the stars of Italian Baroque Opera, the castratos. Little is known about his origins and whereabouts when he was not traceable in Vienna. …”
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