Everyone knows what a toll the rock-star lifestyle can exact. Drugs and alcohol are de rigueur, sexual promiscuity often comes with the territory, and loss of hearing is yet another occupational ...

You're a young boy living in poverty, and your parents don't know how they're going to keep you fed. If you're growing up in the Dominican Republic in 2009, they may pray that a baseball scout will ...

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For a solid portion of musical history, castrato singers or ‘castrati’ had a prominent role in operas, churches and courts across Europe. But why were young boys forced to undergo the gruesome ...

A new exhibition, however, is hoping to overcome the public's squeamishness on the subject by telling the stories of the band of castrati singers who worked for the composer George Frideric Handel. It ...

The Division of the Humanities once again will showcase a wealth of artistic and intellectual talent at the 32nd annual Humanities Day, on Oct. 23. Alumni, students, parents, and community members can ...

If ever there was a class of artists that attained all the glories of mega success through unimaginable suffering, it was the castrati. These unique singers were castrated at a young age, and then ...

Long before botched plastic surgery ruined a movie star’s career, they were the original showbiz victims. Castrati were young opera singers in past centuries castrated to preserve a high-pitched voice ...

1562 The Sistine Chapel choir accepts its first castrato member. 1607 Claudio Monteverdi writes Orfeo, the first major opera, with several roles for castrati. 1737 Farinelli, the most celebrated of ...

Adele is to swap music for acting when she makes her film debut in the next movie by former fashion designer Tom Ford. The singer will appear alongside big names including Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor ...

Monsters and Prodigies: A History of the Castrati: By Jorge Kuri. Directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri. With Javier Medina, Kaveh Parmas, Raúl Román, Gastón Yanes, Miguel Ángel López et al. (Through Sun.