A castrato (Italian; pl.: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano...

Gaetano Majorano (12 April 1710 – 31 January 1783) was an Italian castrato and opera singer, who performed under the stage name Caffarelli. Like Farinelli...

April 1922) was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings. Alessandro Moreschi was born on 11 November 1858...

attached to the Florentine court, to obtain the services of a high quality castrato from the Grand Duke's establishment, for a "play in music" being prepared...

Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (pronounced [ˈkarlo ˈbrɔski]), a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history...

giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly used in Italy (or in other countries) to...

change from chalumeau to oboe corresponds to that from castrato to high tenor. Neither castrato nor chalumeau were to survive. In both the Italian and...

October 1761), best known as Gizziello or Egizziello, was an Italian soprano castrato opera singer. Conti was born in Arpino in 1714, possibly the son of the...

performed in Naples, at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 1 October 1724. The castrato Farinelli, then only 19 years old, sang one of his first roles in it. Io...

The soprano role of Ramiro was written for a castrato. The soprano role of Aminta was written for castrato. Not performed during Mozart's lifetime. The...