[lit-ideas] My Topic! Opera Singing!
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:22:47 EDT
Thanks to L. Helm and J. Evans for links!
My topic. Opera singing!
In general, it should be illegal!
In the old days, poor Neapolitan fathers who wanted a career for their sons
in opera had it simply: they cut the boy's balls -- this yielded a
'castrato'.
Farinelli, in London, was all the rage.
Of course, it is illegal.
----- Similarly, a voice needs to BREAK to become a 'voice'. A secondary
sexual characteristic (in girls as much as boys) is a lowering of a tone.
In general, this operation (cutting of one's testicles -- for the case of a
male) should be made, I am told, before PUBERTY. Nourrit, a tenor, who
comitted suicide afterwards, found that the procedure yielded no results AFTER
puberty, and he could still not reach the 'chest C' (do di petto).
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In general, it is all biological. There are vary FEW female basses, why so?
Speranza -- Bordighera
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