Voicing the Third Gender – The Castrato Voice and the Stigma of Emasculation in Eighteenth-century Society
The golden days of vocal castrati lasted from c. 1650 -1750, when opera buffa, reform opera, and Enlightenment ideas about ‘the sound’ and ‘natural’, made the ‘unnatural’ and ‘unsound’ voice of the castrati obsolete. This article will investigate the castrato voice in eighteenth-century music on a s...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Institut du Monde Anglophone
2016-06-01
|
| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1220 |