Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati
Weird Studies
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Castrado - The Last Castrado to Sing in the Papal Chapel
The castrato was a singular type of voice that simply doesn't exist any more, because there are no more castrati. The idea i had of doing a show on castrate came about p i read the book, and i was like, wild this thi shi gets really weird when you think about it. But also, just the sound of those recordings, like that recording of ave maria that i shared with youand be listenig to it right now. It's kind of nice. Ha ha, ha, ye. A so the castrato wasn't just an outlying, eccentric side show to the musical world. In modern, early modern europe
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