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Histoire des castrats
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ISBN: 2246406811 9782246406815 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : B. Grasset,

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Les Grands Castrats napolitains à Venise au XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 2870095074 9782870095072 Year: 1994 Volume: *38 Publisher: Liège : Mardaga,

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L'opéra seria ou le règne des castrats
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ISBN: 2213030960 9782213030968 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Fayard,

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Farinelli: le castrat des Lumières
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ISBN: 2246484014 9782246484011 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Grasset

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The castrati in opera
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ISBN: 0306800039 9780306800030 Year: 1956 Publisher: London Da Capo Press

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The modern castrato : Gaetano Guadagni and the coming of a new operatic age
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ISBN: 019937970X 0199365210 0199365202 0199374686 9780199365210 9780199365227 0199365229 9780199374687 9780199365203 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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This is the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding singers of the eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni is widely known for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'; he was also a leading singer in Handel's oratorios, and worked with other progressive composers such as Traetta, Jommelli and Bertoni. His career coincided with a movement to reform heroic opera, with the intention of freeing dramatic music from restrictive conventions, and bringing it into harmony with the more expressive aims of the age of sensibility.

La maison des Italiens : les castrats à Versailles
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ISBN: 2246525918 9782246525912 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Grasset

Les castrats
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ISBN: 2130495036 9782130495031 Year: 1998 Volume: 3417 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain : castrato, composer, and cultural leader
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ISBN: 9781580465328 1580465323 9781782046097 1782046097 Year: 2015 Volume: 125 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the celebrated Italian castrato, is best known for his performance in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772, with which Mozart was so pleased that he composed for the singer the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate. In 1774, Rauzzini moved to London where he performed three seasons of serious operas at the King's Theatre. From 1777 until his death in 1810, he was the director of the concert series in Bath, a series that matched the prestige of any that were given in London. In addition, he composed prolifically, writing music for eleven operas. This book is a study of Rauzzini's remarkable yet often overlooked career in Britain. Paul Rice chronicles Rauzzini's performances at the King's Theatre and examines his leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810, recovering much of the repertory. Rice shows in detail how Rauzzini responded musically to the social and political conditions of his adopted country, and analyzes the castrato's reception, as well as compositional choices, shedding new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain. Paul F. Rice is professor of musicology at the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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