How to Use castrato in a Sentence
castrato
noun
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Even by the time Moreschi was born, the castrato voice had long since gone out of fashion in the world of opera.
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Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2019
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Lit by candlelight, the play with music centers on a castrato who gives up his career to sing privately for a Spanish king.
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Mark Kennedy,
The Seattle Times,
6 Sep. 2017
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Farinelli, the castrato at the center of Claire van Kampen’s baroque drama about the healing powers of music, sings his final solo.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2018
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This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
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Marina Harss,
New York Times,
2 May 2017
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Not least of these is the chance to hear countertenor Iestyn Davies perform a number of baroque opera arias by Handel, in what's probably as close as possible to the castrato sound without using a boy singer or mixing in a soprano.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Dec. 2017
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Many castrati came from modest backgrounds and were propelled into their careers by families eager for some kind of opportunity in the Catholic Church.
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Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2019
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The real Farinelli was a castrato, his high voice resulting from childhood castration, a once common procedure starting in the 1500s.
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Sopan Deb,
New York Times,
29 Jan. 2018
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Mark Rylance stars in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music as the 18th-century Spanish monarch whose chronic melancholia could be soothed only by the heavenly singing of the celebrated castrato.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Dec. 2017
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And the superstars of Baroque opera were castratos — boys castrated before puberty to retain their high voices — the best of whom intriguingly combined a feminine range and sound quality with heroic, masculine power.
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Anthony Tommasini,
New York Times,
14 July 2017
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Gamblers, occultists, harlots, castrato singers, and masked revelers populated the galleries alongside beautifully crafted wall sconces, ball gowns, and porcelain tureens.
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell,
BostonGlobe.com,
3 Mar. 2018
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