For, the castrato is not found but made (and self made), made to be extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

The body of the castrato is exceptional in part because of its lack — it cannot reproduce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

I thought he was a 'castrato' who, as is the custom in Rome, performed all the parts of a prima donna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

The mother presented to, me her other son, likewise very good-looking, but more manly than the 'castrato', although younger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

I think he is a very pretty 'castrato', and 'I have seen many as good-looking as he is. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

A castrato sang the prologue and two female parts in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800'] Reference

For at the end of the mass, the castrato Folligno sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber] Reference

Londoner John Evelyn reported to have heard the castrato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800'] Reference

Then got married and became a castrato like everybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Back In Languor] Reference

The castrato dares us to confront his body of evidence, as it were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

And the voice of a castrato, they really had an amazing technique also.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Listen: Cecilia Bartoli, 'Sacrificium'] Reference

The castrato singer's corporeal supernumerarity, however, was not thus limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Virtuosity as we associate it with the figure of the castrato has been defined as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

“Khádim”: lit. a servant, politely applied (like Aghá = master) to a castrato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

To approximate the voice of the famous castrato, Corbiau combined the voices of soprano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800'] Reference

Her historical series set in eighteenth century Italy features a castrato opera singer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

After all, the disappearance of the castrato during the period around 1800 is held up as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Brilliant and astute, Brooks's humor draws a clear association between the castrato singer and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

"Behlem would have my hide " and have Jimbob turned into a castrato and sold to the Sea-Priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soprano Sorceress]

Therefore the rise of the castrato must derive from motivations entirely specific to the voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

The castrato earned much for his gift, and contributed much to help these supplicants and mendicants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber] Reference

The figure of the castrato can do more than vaguely aggrandize the sense of cultural progress in his absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Finally, through their juxtaposition, we might begin to read both the figure of the castrato and Frankenstein's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Giovanni-Battista Mancini (1714-1800), a castrato soprano contemporary with Farinelli, was also the founder of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800'] Reference

Now his castrato Masrúr was standing before him, and he laughed: whereupon the Caliph said At whom laughest thou?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

It premiered in Vienna in 1762 with the lead sung by Gaetano Guadagni, one of the most popular castrato singers of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Harvell's novel about 18th-century opera, "The Bells"] Reference

Have we been too dismissive of the positive relationship between the castrato and the leveling of hierarchies, of proto-democracy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Every good castrato had to sing at least - because castrato was asking a composer to compose an aria - and nightingale arias, yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Listen: Cecilia Bartoli, 'Sacrificium'] Reference

However, the fact that the Creature can figure the castrato body for us does deliver light, if not in torrents then at least in rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Unlike the figure of the castrato, however, which romanticism generally dissociates except through ideas of his purgation and absence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

Through the effect of the orchiectomy, the castrato singer retained the ring, the freshness, and the carrying power of the boy's voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

I took him for a girl in disguise, and I said so to the abbé Gama; but the latter told me that it was Bepino della Mamana, a famous castrato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference

The castrato body tests our understanding of his exception, and of exceptionalism generally, by confronting us with a body that is simultaneously partial and supernumerary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800] Reference