In this Handel News article from October 2014 Calvin Wells, the Artistic Director of Ensemble Serse talks about the place of castrati playing female roles.
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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.
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