Historians and scientists have exhumed the remains of the legendary castrato Farinelli in Italy, to study the anatomical effects of castration carried out on young boys to turn them into high-pitched ...

Is the French writer-director Gerard Corbiau-whose Belgian film “Farinelli” won him his second foreign-language-film Oscar nomination-inventing his own new movie genre? If so, maybe we should call it ...

Twenty years after the successful feature film of the same name, a concert in London is paying tribute to the greatest singer of the Baroque era – Farinelli. Carlo Broschi Farinelli was the most ...

Opera latecomer Vivica Genaux builds a reputation by singing music originally performed by castrated men. The New York Times names her solo debut CD — composed of the "greatest hits" of famed ...

Per secoli il suo nome è stato dimenticato, solo qualche cenno in relazione al suo celebre fratello, Carlo Broschi, cantante castrato acclamato dal pubblico di tutt’Europa, sovrani compresi, con il ...

He’s a singing star with a high voice and an oddly androgynous appearance who has undergone some very controversial elective surgery. No, not Michael Jackson. The man I have in mind is Carlo Broschi, ...