Moreschi
Subtitle: The Last Castrato (Life & Times)
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781904341772
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Opera; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Composers & Musicians - General
First sentence: The vocal tradition of which Moreschi was the 'last' representative stretches back far beyond the famous castrati of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to the vocally-gifted eunuchs of the Imperial Chinese court and the gelded choristers of Byzantium.