By: Clapton, Nicholas
Price: £10.00
Publisher:
Haus Publishing: 2008
Seller ID: 12962
ISBN: 1905791429
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New in Fine dust jacket
354pp, illustrations. Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922) was known during his life as the 'Angel of Rome' and is remembered as the only castrato singer of whom recordings survive. Historically he was the last representative of the centuries-old tradition of castrating boy singers in order to preserve the pitch of their voices to adulthood - an act of cruelty that produced come of the greatest singers the world had ever known.
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