The Fourth Voice

In this Handel News article from September 2000 Duncan Chisholm recounts 19th century singer Emma Calve’s experience of learning to reproduce a vocal ‘trick’ she heard a castrato use in Rome.

TagsAuthor: Duncan Chisholm, Castrato, Emma Calve, Handel News 22 - September 2000, Publication Year: 2000, September 2000

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