Farinelli, il Castrato

Aria de la pelicula Farinelli, il Castrato

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• farinelli
• il
• castrato
• male
• soprano
• handel
• opera

[marciotricoli]

oh well? they had tapes from farinelli?

farinelli died 1782, tapes did not exist at that time. so tell me how they were able to record him ...

and the second bullshit you said: the man in the movie (Stefano Dionisi) did not sing one note! the people who gave their voices were: Derek Lee Ragin and Ewa Mallas-Godlewska

[Dacookstar]

Counter+Soprano is how they did it.

[GladiatorShield]

hahahahahaha viva il costello .......molto bella. ma e normale ?

[singerman2008]

Just to clarify, they didnt actually cut the balls off. It was a procedure where by the sack was cutting stopping the flow of certain keys things!

[DoverFerry]

@marciotricoli they cut his balls off so he could sing like Farinelli.  Wasn't Farinelli on hand as a consultant anyway?

[aguacun]

@viharsarok in fact the translation in spanish is "castrado". Castratti or castrati is plural . So, in spanish we can say castrato or castrado or the plural way. I think is not the same for the term "Opera". This term have not a translation in to spanish. I remember once that someone, in an english proficiency test, asked me for the term "Opera" in english. He asked me to say Opera in english. I still do not know how it is and. of course, he neither told me ;) hehehehehee!

[emiliatrag]

@viharsarok Sorry, I was making a joke, humor doesn't transfer well in internet. But i googled and castratti is portugese, which means i was right ;) (I said spanish or something like that, and because spanish and portugese are related, so portugese is something like spanish )

And no reason to show off, :)

[viharsarok]

@emiliatrag Are you serious? Are ther other languages than English? I never knew that even though I'm fluent in like four of them, and can read in an additional four.

Castratti is not Spanish, the Spanish term is castrato just like its Italian counterpart.

[emiliatrag]

@viharsarok You know english isn't the only language int the world, eg we have kastraat, english have castrato, castratti is (i think) spanish or something like that

[grininjonny]

@ashleylynnjoan you'll have to get your balls cut off!!!!!

[Evelyn40420]

@Evelyn40420 well, i dont remember if it was exactly cecilia bartoli, but she did make a castrati album inspired by the movie and explained later how hard it was, it is possible to sing like castrati if you prepare yourself

[Evelyn40420]

@marciotricoli Cecilia Bartoli recorded the "voice" of Farinelli for the movie. She said in a later interview to Reader´s Digest that it was very hard, since the arias were specially created for castratti, who as men still had bigger lungs, stronger abdominal muscles and an extraordinary air capacity, if we add to that the feature of the high pitch as a woman, the result was something imposible to reach unless you are a soprano with double size lungs or a tenor with your balls cut off :) :) .)