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castrato
Earlier, it was common for that part to be sung by any female voice, or even a castrato.
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Originally written for a male castrato, Orfeo has in modern times been sung mostly by mezzos.
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The emperor even went so far as to put two rival divas head to head, one of them a castrato.
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Today, much of the repertoire sung by a countertenor was originally written for a castrato.
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Men's colleges once looked about as viable as castrato choirs.
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The alto parts of Handel's Messiah were first sung by a castrato.
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The last famous Italian castrato, Giovanni Velluti, died in 1861.
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We preferred him when we pretended he was a castrato.
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For the main articles, see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, countertenor and castrato.
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- A male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
- A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.
- A male soprano, castrated before puberty, with a brilliant, powerful and flexible voice. Castrati flourished during the Baroque period, and some enjoyed the fame pop stars do today.
