In daily life, appreciating music is the norm of the public's life, and I believe that everyone also has their own favorite singers.
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But what is the difference between the stars that people chased hundreds of years ago and the stars that people chase now? Let me take you through it!
As early as the sixteenth century, in churches, in order to sing the praises of God, people would sing to express their inner piety. At that time, women were not allowed to participate in the choir in the church, and the high-pitched voice was played by boys. However, it is well known that boys have a voice change period, and the singing age is limited, and then replaced by false singers. However, the false voice singer sings in a special way, and the timbre is unnatural and difficult to coordinate.
Eventually, a solution was conceived of, in which boys with loud voices were brutally castrated before they entered puberty to change their developing voices so that their voices would not become thicker and lowered as adults. After rigorous training, some eunuch singers reached an astonishing level of singing, and some of them walked out of the church and onto the opera stage, becoming the object of the audience's eager pursuit at that time. One of the most famous was Farinelli, who was the most likable eunuch singer of his time with special musical talents, but his life experience was very tragic!
Farinelli
In the eighteenth century, Rigado (Farinelli's older brother) was a classical music composer who, in order to ensure that his brother Faranelli's high-pitched singing voice would not disappear as a result of growing up, was executed in the palace when Henelli was a child, and Faranelli became a great singer. His intoxicating singing voice and innocent charm fascinated many beautiful women, and Rigado took the opportunity to pretend to be Faranelli's brother to hook up with them, and controlled the pure Faranelli everywhere in his feelings and career, for which Faranelli paid his life...
In the movie "Absolute Demon", there is a detailed depiction of his life, and his representative work "Let Me Suffer" also has a perfect display in the movie, interested friends can go to see oh!
Next, let's introduce the last eunuch singer in history: Alessandro Moresky
Alessandro Moreski (1858–1922)
His recordings in Rome between 1902 and 1904 are valuable sources for today's understanding of the actual vocal and singing skills of eunuch singers, but later generations have different evaluations of him, but most people think that he was a talented singer, unfortunately the recording technology did not arrive in time for his golden age.
Although in today's society we rarely hear the concept of eunuch singers in our daily lives, and it seems absurd to us, we have to admit that this was the beauty of that era, casting a different landscape on our musical history!