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Article: `Farinelli' Gives Voice to Another Era // Technology Puts Castrato on Film
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 18, 1995
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"What singing! Imagine a voice that combines the sweetness of
the flute and the animated suavity of the human larynx - a voice
which leaps and leaps, lightly and spontaneously. . . . A calm,
sweet, solemn and sonorous musical language that left me
dumbstruck."
This passage is describing:
A. Michael Jackson
B. Luciano Pavarotti
C. Farinelli, the great Italian castrato of the 18th century.
The answer, you might have guessed, is C. The life of the man
whose voice was described in 1956's Castrati in Opera unfolds in the
new film "Farinelli," which opened here Friday. The movie recalls
the man who raised the art of singing beyond human limits.
His superhuman talents sprang from a ...