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Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: injest on March 04, 2008, 02:46:37 pm ---so they can take turns?? :-X :-X :-X :-X
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Damn I do have a dirty imagination...... :-X ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: susiebk on March 04, 2008, 03:11:12 pm ---The singers were castrated to keep their voices boyish and high pitched. Some price to pay for art!
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Yes, there was a film about one of them back in the '90s, I think. I forget what it was called and I never got around to seeing it. :-\
Jess seemed to be suggesting that in the plot of the Anne Rice novel the character was castrated for some reason connected with the inheritance. That's why I was asking.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Shakestheground on March 04, 2008, 03:02:52 pm ---Damn I do have a dirty imagination...... :-X ;D
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It don't cost anything to imagine. ... ;D
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2008, 03:38:13 pm ---Yes, there was a film about one of them back in the '90s, I think. I forget what it was called and I never got around to seeing it. :-\
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You mean Farinelli. I never saw it either.
southendmd:
Here's a youtube clip of Farinelli singing "Laschia ch'io pianga", my favorite Handel aria. Apparently, they digitally combined the voice of a countertenor and a soprano to "create" the castrato voice, as no one really knows what it would sound like.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMOmBohlTE[/youtube]
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