The World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon

This entertaining and authoritative study of the castrati during the baroque period explores the lives and triumphs of more than 60 singers over three centuriesâ€”their social origins, training, and relationship to society and church. Blending history and anecdote, it traces the course of a phenomenon that held Europe in its thrall. People were fascinated by these hybridsâ€”part man, part woman, and part childâ€”who became virile heroes on the operatic stage. The reader will learn of the horrors of castration, the nature of the strange castrato voice, and the conflicts these singers experienced.

Arts & Photography

Barbier, Patrick

Music

Souvenir Pr Ltd

This entertaining and authoritative study of the castrati during the baroque period explores the lives and triumphs of more than 60 singers over three centuries—their social origins, training, and relationship to society and church. Blending history and anecdote, it traces the course of a phenomenon that held Europe in its thrall. People were fascinated by these hybrids—part man, part woman, and part child—who became virile heroes on the operatic stage. The reader will learn of the horrors of castration, the nature of the strange castrato voice, and the conflicts these singers experienced.

Souvenir Press

A detailed evocation of Venice and the city's musical culture that inspired Vivaldi. At the time Venice was, uniquely, a city where all classes mingled in their love of music; aristocrats, gondoliers and the workers met to listen to all types of music. All that is known about Vivaldi's life is included, and all the recent discoveries that have been made about that life (as well as details from Vivaldi's contemporaries). The book captures the hedonistic atmosphere of Venice at the time, already an international tourist destination, and how that was reflected by the mysterious Vivaldi in his baroque music (which is still available in a range of recordings).

Vivaldi's Venice

This book explores every facet pf Parisian musical life in the glorious first half of the 19th century. Among the composers who chose Paris as a second home were Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Liszt, and Chopin. HARDCOVER.

Opera in Paris 1800-1850: A Lively History (Amadeus)

Amadeus

Histoire des castrats

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

GRASSET

La Venise de Vivaldi

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Pauline Viardot

NAPLES EN FETE: Théâtre, opéras et castrats au XVIIIème siècle

Literary

Voyage dans la Rome baroque: Le Vatican, les princes et les fêtes musicales

La República de Venecia vive en el siglo XVIII sus últimas horas de gloria. Nunca se ha divertido tanto, nunca la fiesta y la música han ocupado semejante lugar en la vida cotidiana. El Carnaval (que dura entre cinco y seis meses), las fiestas oficiales, el juego, pero también los conciertos, las ceremonias religiosas y la ópera provocan la admiración y la envidia de los visitantes extranjeros. Vivaldi, cuyo nombre es inseparable de Venecia, escribe sus conciertos para las muchachas de los Hospicios y se comporta, en el mundo del teatro, como un hombre de negocios tan dotado como astuto. Del Carnaval a las recepciones en las embajadas, de la basílica de San Marcos a los grandes teatros de ópera, de las barcarolas en los canales a la música de los claustros, Patrick Barbier, a partir de memorias y epistolarios de la época, pero asimismo gracias a jugosas anécdotas, resucita la vida musical de esta ciudad incomparable.

La Venecia de Vivaldi: Música y fiestas barrocas (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Paidós

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