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Hi, everybody.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:02 pm
by devi (imported)

Re: Hi, everybody.

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:51 am
by JesusA (imported)
Thank you for finding all of these Youtube videos and posting the links. While I already own a DVD of the entire program, the last one on your list is always a joy to see and hear – four beautiful voices clearly demonstrating vocal differences in a memorable fashion

Jennifer Johnston – a female soprano

Joey Howard – a boy treble (though not one of the better ones)

Nicholas Clapton – counter-tenor (who curated the exhibition on castrati at the Handel House Museum in London on which this show is based)

Michael Maniaci – a male soprano

While Maniaci is not, by all accounts, a castrato, a developmental problem in puberty left him with a voice that is as close to a true, musically trained, castrato as we are likely to ever hear (unless the rumors about a couple of other male sopranos are true). His musical training gives us a hint as to what the finest castrati must have sounded like. I can only imagine the Vatican Choir when it contained a dozen voices like his….

Re: Hi, everybody.

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:03 pm
by lilac (imported)
Yes, Thank you!! I enjoyed them very much. :)

Lilac