farinelli

[sfkcbf]

For interested viewers, an informed explanation of castrato history and sound, go to the website MaleSopranos and read the articles "An Amazing Life, Carlo Broschi Farinelli" and also "The High Male Voice, An Introduction."

[webbersarahlover]

Ewa Mallas Godlewska!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[florianos007]

Amazing, I love Handel and Farinelli..amazing

[suffiice]

One of the best pieces every composed

[p7242866]

唱的沒缺氧~聽的人倒是聽到快斷氣了~

改天可以找Vitas試一下

[WiseMonke]

Yes, the interesting thing is that this voice you actually hear is a syntheses made by combining the two separate voices of a male countertenor and a female soprano. It does take ones breath away... I agree!!! Zhu nin kuai le :].

[ForceDudecp]

I was like O.O when the blood came out of the water

[canelong]

u know i watched a progeam on castartos and as good a voice as this is it's nowhere near to wat a ture castrato sounds like. and we will never actualy know what exactly they sound like but the closest resembalnce that was created was nothing like that. any way seeing as the voice is actualy a womans im not serprised

[tchebinai71]

What happens to the man ? Too much pleasure ?

And what happened to the boy ?

[nicki121]

the man recovers and the boy is the singer

[JohnnyCoolMusic]

The boy became THE Farinelli and the old man was his competition and that night... he realised that we wasn't THE best but second place. Damn!!! Rent that movie! IT'S fucling amazing !

[mradaChris]

I got to watch the movie again as I don't think he was second place to no one! :-)

[Arnastin]

"Lascia Ch'io Pianga" from Rinaldo, Haendel

[Liwah]

What's the name of this aria?

[seravisa]

GENIAL!!!!!!!!!!

[mayratexmex]

Hay uno que por una enfermedad que tubo a los 7 años, le quedo la voz asi y canta parecido. Su nombre es Javier Medina....Escuchenlo...

[francament]

Bellisimo!!

[sfkcbf]

Fortunately today, we have a few better trained "voi-blanc" females, countertenors, and rare male sopranos to sing these arias without having to artifically create them. A few male singers say that they wish they were castrati, but they can make their arguments themselves.

[cadaques1978]

the most beautifull thing ever is the peacock unfolding the tail its the very essence of glory in that gilted background... that echo effect was more that used in farinelli's time

[SinoSene]

Yes, transsexuals all over the world choose to have surgery, but the issue there is gender versus biological sex. In the period of Farinelli castrati often came from poor homes and were sold in the hope that they would become famous and help their families(e.g. Senesino). Mid 1700s 4000(!) boys were castrated a year in Italy, those are the registered operations.

I'm glad this practice has stopped! It was a barbaric source of lovely myths,stories and music. I DO love this clip though.

[wantok99]

that gave me chills..

[riceey]

that whole practice was barbaric considering hardly any of the castrati made it to the "big time".

[sfkcbf]

(for riceey) Barbaric? Yes by today's thinking, even though some boys demanded to be made castrati. Keep in mind, however, that today thousands of males choose to be emascualted for different reasons. There are an estimated 10000 known transexuals in L.A. alone. India has 1 to 1 1/2 million eunuchs. Can we truly judge?

[saebyuksky]

After Many singer watched the movie, become a countertenor.

[harwetopa]

Hauntingly beautiful. Gave me goosebumps.

[sfkcbf]

Glad "Farinelli" was made (only about 10% about the real Carol Broschi); however, the chosen voices were mediocre and inappropriate to approximate Farinelli's. They missed a fantastic chance of using the most beauty, clear, golden voices of the 20th century, soprano Gundula Janowitz and the young countertenor Andreas Scholl. Then the singing truly would have been wonderful. Hear the CD soundtrack for the full arias. The excerpts in the movie are 2/5 or less, and you miss the DaCapo intent.

[tashaklikedi]

hmm it sounds fake :p anyway i ll check it out but i know derek lee raggin's singing and its really impressive he can do this voice exactly.

[tacv]

who sang this?

[nicki121]

it was a fusion of 2 voices male and female Ewa Mallas Godlewska Derek Lee Ragin

[tashaklikedi]

no it was only derek lee raggin.

[nicki121]

no it wasnt it was a fusion of 2 voices look it up they wanted to get the truest sound to a castrato that they could

[tashaklikedi]

maybe the most higher notes are singed by a woman but i know that there is not two persons singing at the same time it s impossible even for the best singers to sing in the same time that cleanly

[nicki121]

no they technologicaly melded the two voices together and yes you are right the highest notes are mostly sang by Ewa

[nicki121]

no but Seriously look it up even in the making of it documentary it says so and you can go on imdb

[saebyuksky]

nicki121 is right!

[Roscieto]

nice...

but it is true that the castrati lost their balls just to sing this way...

or worse in some extent

[Milkshakevanilla]

Yes thats true you know they didn't have any fun than singing in that time so singing was everything.

[EnhedunsZeit]

Whats the name of this film?

[nicki121]

the name is "farinelli il castrato"

[madcrazymad]

he didn't suffocate, he fainted for the beauty of that singing

[nicktan21]

may i know why did the old guy suffocate ?

[nicki121]

i think it was because of the power and beaty of farinlles voice

[ericpowder]

i like this song ever since i heard it in the first time.

[tupajamaru]

muy bueno