World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon by Patrick Barbier

World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon

Patrick Barbier

282 pages • first pub 1989 (view editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective slow-paced
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Patrick Barbier's entertaining and authoritative book is the first full study of the subject in the context of the baroque period. Covering the lives of more than sixty singers from the end of the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, he blends his...

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