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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Haus Pub.
Known as the 'Angel of Rome,' Alessandro Moreschi was the last surviving castrato singer of the Vatican choir, and the only castrati whose voice was recorded. I
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Haus Publishing
Behind the extraordinary sound of the voice of ‘the last castrato’ lies a strange and lonely life lived in the shadow of great events and institutions, a pe
Language: en
Pages: 496
Pages: 496
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that
Language: en
Pages: 578
Pages: 578
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-04-01 - Publisher: Ballantine Books
In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the deca
Language: en
Pages: 149
Pages: 149
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-15 - Publisher: Haus Publishing
Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discov