 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Rants & raves.
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 6/24/2003; 171 words
; [Today's gays] jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air, and, with their little castrato voices, moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through. --Legendary French actress Brigitte Dardot, in her new book A Cry...
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Sappho, Mary Wakefield, and Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...ambivalent homoerotic attraction to the ghost of Zaffirino, a castrato singer who haunts him. This essay suggests that the homoeroticism...the singer, he insults the memory of Zaffirino, a celebrated castrato of that period, who claimed that no woman could resist his...
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Music listings.
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 9/17/2002; 700+ words
; ...Arias for Farinelli. Newcomer and mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux tackles works written for Farinelli, the legendary 18th-century castrato who has become a 21st-century gender-bending favorite. (Harmonia Mundi) Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the Screw. Ian Bostridge...
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Farinelli.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Belgian director's latest, Farinelli. This purports to be the story of one of the eighteenth century's two or three most famous castrato singers, whose real name was Carlo Broschi. He had a tremendous career under the supervision of his elder brother, Riccardo...
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Montreal.(Canada)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 5/1/2006; ; 390 words
; ...ambitious choice of Radamisto (which was double-cast) was based on Handel's December 1720 revision, which featured the legendary castrato, Senesino. Two virtuous ladies, Radamisto's wife, Zenobia, and his sister, Polissena, completely dominated the evening's proceedings...
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Jaan Toomik and Timur Novikov at 1-20.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/1999; ; 431 words
; ...Baltic Sea, accompanied by a soundtrack of his 10-year-old son singing 14th-century choral music with the angelic pitch of a castrato. The starkness of the white, icy landscape is made all the more barren by the camera's unchanging focus and the pale, unclad...
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Best of show. (exhibits at the 1995 Venice Biennale)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Bellotto, as well as Jacopo Amigoni's Group Portrait, 1750-52 (now in Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria), featuring the castrato Farinelli, the most famous singer of his time. He is surrounded by friends, among them the artist, who has portrayed himself...
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The Iron Tongue of Midnight: A Baroque Mystery.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 5/1/2008; ; 332 words
; ...in the villa of their benefactor, midnight murders begin to claim the lives of strangers and friends. Tito Amato, a renowned castrato and amateur sleuth, is already intrigued about his invitation to be a part of this performance, and discovers that the mysterious...
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Teatro: Ni monstruos ni prodigios.(TT: Theater: neither monsters nor wonders.)(Reseña)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 1/21/2001; ; 675 words
; ...grotescos que se asocian a la figura del castrato y a la sociedad que lo idolatra o lo...escuchamos la grabación del último castrato, el escenario manifiesta su paradó...el individuo. Sólo entonces, il castrato se humaniza y, al hacerlo, comprueba...
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Orphee et Eurydice.(DVDs)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 6/1/2008; 231 words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The performance is based on the rarely heard 1774 French version in which Gluck recast the original Italian castrato role of Orfeo for a French tenor. Given the elegance of Simoneau's singing, the ease of his top and his irresistible use of...
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