Assertion: contralto's role | /r/HasProperty | written as skirt roles
Facets:
value: originally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As women were not allowed to sing on stage in the Papal States during the Baroque period, many female operatic roles which premiered in those areas were originally written as skirt roles for castrati (e.g. Mandane and Semira in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse).