| 31. | He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a castrato.
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| 32. | He also released a book The Last Castrato under the name J . Wolf Sanchez.
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| 33. | Scarlatti befriended the castrato singer Farinelli, a fellow Neapolitan also enjoying royal patronage in Madrid.
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| 34. | Some claim that Handel wrote the Air in London in 1750 for the castrato Gaetano Guadagni.
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| 35. | The castrato is an entirely different " instrument . " I am not condoning the practice.
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| 36. | Apolloni and Cesti adapted the title role ( originally sung by a castrato ) for Masotti.
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| 37. | This is opera mirroring the myth, at least, of the castrato's sexual potency.
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| 38. | Eighteen years earlier, Carlo and Riccardo watched as an itinerant trumpet player humiliated a young castrato.
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| 39. | The production starred soprano Maria Giovanna Gasparini as Cleopatra VII and castrato Paolo Bedeschi as Julius Caesar.
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| 40. | The role of Orfeo, originally for alto castrato, went to soprano castrato, then to countertenor.
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