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Meaning of "castrato"
castrato (noun) - A male singer with a high voice range that was achieved through castration before puberty. Castrati were prominent in opera during the 16th to 18th centuries, known for their powerful and expressive vocal abilities
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- A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
- A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
- Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.
- Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun).
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Moreschi is the only castrato to be recorded solo.
Unless you want to beknown as fidel castrato.
The castrato voice was not falsetto.
This role would originally have been performed by a castrato.
See castrato for more information.
Artaxerxes was composed when the castrato singers were at their height.
One of them is less than a kilometre away from our castrato.
Giuseppe became a castrato singer.
The voice of a castrato worked in the same way mine or yours works.
You better get a castrato.
He became a famous soprano castrato with the Cappella Sistina in the Vatican.
Zambinella is a castrato.
The famous castrato Gasparo Pacchierotti leads the cast.
Known as fidel castrato.
Castrato voices were succeeded by boys ' voices.
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Farinelli the castrato.
Creating a castrato singer was not an exact science, as young boys developed at varying rates.
Unless you want to be known as FideI Castrato.
Portrait of famed castrato Farinelli.
The Vatican choir could use a new castrato.
Domenico Mustafa was a famous soprano castrato with the Cappella Sistina in the Vatican.
And already in Orfeo we have castrato.
But the mature castrato voice did not sound like a child, nor did it sound like a woman.
David Howard is going to develop a new method of recreating the castrato voice.
The demise of castrato singing meant that Metastasio 's operas dropped out of the repertory.
La Zambinella is in fact a castrato.
Deprived of the presence of the famous castrato Farinelli, this opera was nonetheless a dazzling success.
It was the only role that Rossini wrote for the castrato voice.
Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.
Unless you want to be known as Fidel Castrato.
While at the Spanish court, the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing.
It was colourless and thin like a falsetto, or a castrato.
The first Orfeo was the famous castrato Gaetano Guadagni.
For the remaining performances, her role was sung by a castrato.
The lead role was written for the castrato Giovanni Carestini.
He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a castrato.
Scarlatti befriended the castrato singer Farinelli, a fellow Neapolitan also enjoying royal patronage in Madrid.
Falsirena was sung by the composer and castrato Loreto Vittori.
For the castrato singer, see Pier Francesco Tosi.
The most distinguished cast member was the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini.
Celebrated castrato Gaetano Berenstadt visits London and plays the lead in a revival of Handel 's Rinaldo.
The trill of the birds makes the presence of a Farinelli Il Castrato feel for inspiration.
You little castrato piece of shit!
Touch my gun again, and you will be singing in castrato.
The role of Sesto was taken by castrato soprano, Domenico Bedini.
It was also the invention of the new leader, the manager as castrato.
Why did the castrato die?
The film had to convincingly recreate the voice of the world 's greatest castrato.
Being a castrato was no picnic, right guys?
The part of Sant'Alessio lies extremely high and was meant to be sung by a castrato.
