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Colm Tóibín: Sex Lives of the Castrati, 8 October 2015
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds
by Martha Feldman.
California, 454 pp., £40, March 2015,978 0 520 27949 0 Show More
by Martha Feldman.
California, 454 pp., £40, March 2015,
Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage and Music in the Life of Atto Melani
by Roger Freitas.
Cambridge, 452 pp., £22.99, May 2014,978 1 107 69610 5 Show More
by Roger Freitas.
Cambridge, 452 pp., £22.99, May 2014,
“... in which the party was held came from La Zambinella’s earnings as a castrato much in demand. Martha Feldman’s The Castrato, rich in scholarship and filled with subtle analysis, is one of several books that have appeared on the subject of castrati in recent years. In The Queen’s Throat, published in 1993, Wayne Koestenbaum offers an ingenious ... ”