10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FARINELLI»
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The Grove Book of Opera Singers - Strona 152
152 s FARRAR, GERALDINE but without the loss of any high notes, so that in many operas one aria (usually an adagio) was written for him in the normal tessitura of a contralto, while his others were of soprano range [Farinelli's later repertory ...
Laura Williams Macy, 2008
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Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices - Strona 25
Perhaps the most efficacious silent-breath exercise is popularly called “Farinelli's Exercise.” The great eighteenth-century castrato Carlo Broschi was known as Farinelli. Despite the lack of supportive historical evidence, oral tradition has it that ...
Richard Miller Professor of Voice Oberlin Conservatory (Emeritus), 2008
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The Reception of Byron in Europe - Strona 120
Fortunately, he adds, the day came when the public realized that 'worshipping Lord Byron . . . was a frenzy of the past' ('il culto per Lord Byron . . . era un delirio del passato').57 Farinelli's severe criticism was somewhat tempered in his 1924 ...
Richard A. Cardwell, 2004
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Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age ...
At the bottom of the scroll is an image showing Farinelli raised on a pedestal before a burning altar, in front of which several women are falling forward in reverence. One of them has a tribune issuing from her mouth bearing the blasphemous ...
Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Catherine M. Sama, 2009
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The Rough Guide to Opera
The most famous castrate of all was Carlo Broschi - otherwise known as Farinelli (1705-82). Born in Este, to a wealthy family (which was very unusual for a castrate), he received his "warm bath" shortly after his seventh birthday, and studied ...
Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley, Joe Staines, 2002
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Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy - Strona 201
In 1776 historian John Hawkins lauded the singing of Farinelli and Senesino: The world had never seen two such singers upon the same stage as Senesino and Farinelli; the former was a just and graceful actor, and in the opinion of very good ...
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From Garrick to Gluck: Essays on Opera in the Age of ... - Strona 105
6 FARINELLI AND METASTASIO, RIVAL TWINS OF PUBLIC FAVOR Carlo Broschi Farinelli was the tutelary divinity of eighteenth-century musicians, according to the singing teacher Giambattista Mancini. He brought the art of the soprano ...
Daniel Heartz, John A. Rice, 2004
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Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in ... - Strona 71
The famous account by Burney cited in chapter 1 of Farinelli's contest with the trumpeter—recently relocated to the mise-en-scène of a lowbrow town square in Corbiau's 1994 film Farinelli— underscores the agonistic dimension of such an ...
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Castrati: Castrato, Farinelli, Gaspare Pacchierotti, ...
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Music of the past, instruments and imagination: ... - Strona 272
In her will Maria Barbara bequeathed these three instruments to Carlo Broschi, the castrato better known as Farinelli. From the year after the queen's accession to the throne in 1747 until her death in 1758, Farinelli had served her as director of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FARINELLI»
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Farinelli and the guilty appeal of the castrato
Wishing oneself back to Lincoln Inns Fields in the 1720s to hear the wonderful voice of Farinelli, one of London's favourite castratos, seems indecent. It's as if ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 15»
It may have a meagre script and no plot but Farinelli and the King is …
She hires Farinelli ('little baker'), who warbles to him day and night in his rural retreat. Farinelli was blessed with the finest vocal kit in Europe but he resented ... «Spectator.co.uk, Oct 15»
Review: Farinelli and The King, Duke of York's Theatre
Farinelli and The King tells of the unification of two men who feel equally at odds with their position of privilege having been thrust upon them, and the role of the ... «A Younger Theatre, Oct 15»
Theatre reviews: Kiss Me Kate, Tipping The Velvet and Farinelli And …
COLE Porter, the most Brahmin of Broadway composers, who had entranced audiences in the 1930s and 40s with a wealth of unforgettable songs in ... «Express.co.uk, Oct 15»
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk & Farinelli and the King
Rylance plays King Philippe V of Spain, the mentally unstable monarch who became obsessed with the singing of Farinelli, the greatest castrato of his age. «Blouinartinfo UK, Oct 15»
Farinelli and the King, Duke of York's Theatre, London, review: Mark …
It is she who hits on the idea of seeking out Farinelli, the world-famous castrato who, at the age of thirty two, left the adoring throngs in the opera house for the ... «The Independent, Oct 15»
'Farinelli and the King': Theater Review
After a sold-out run at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, playwright Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King brings its heady mix of music and madness to ... «Hollywood Reporter, Sep 15»
The King and I: Iestyn Davies on being Farinelli
Only a season or two before, in 1739, the great castrato singer Farinelli had left London and his brilliant career to answer such a call at the court of Philip V of ... «The Guardian, Sep 15»
'Wolf Hall' Star Mark Rylance Returns to the Stage in 'Farinelli and …
But in her debut play, “Farinelli and the King,” Claire van Kampen finds a modern tale in events three-centuries old. “Farinelli and the King,” which opened this ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 15»
As Farinelli and the King opens we look at the past, present and …
When Mark Rylance and the cast of Farinelli and the King step on stage at the intimate Duke of York's theatre in London, from the flickering glow of the candle-lit ... «The Independent, Sep 15»
