How to Use castrato in a Sentence

castrato

noun

• Even by the time Moreschi was born, the castrato voice had long since gone out of fashion in the world of opera.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• Lit by candlelight, the play with music centers on a castrato who gives up his career to sing privately for a Spanish king.
  — Mark Kennedy, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Farinelli, the castrato at the center of Claire van Kampen’s baroque drama about the healing powers of music, sings his final solo.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
  — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 May 2017
• Not least of these is the chance to hear countertenor Iestyn Davies perform a number of baroque opera arias by Handel, in what's probably as close as possible to the castrato sound without using a boy singer or mixing in a soprano.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• Many castrati came from modest backgrounds and were propelled into their careers by families eager for some kind of opportunity in the Catholic Church.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• The real Farinelli was a castrato, his high voice resulting from childhood castration, a once common procedure starting in the 1500s.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Mark Rylance stars in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music as the 18th-century Spanish monarch whose chronic melancholia could be soothed only by the heavenly singing of the celebrated castrato.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• And the superstars of Baroque opera were castratos — boys castrated before puberty to retain their high voices — the best of whom intriguingly combined a feminine range and sound quality with heroic, masculine power.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Gamblers, occultists, harlots, castrato singers, and masked revelers populated the galleries alongside beautifully crafted wall sconces, ball gowns, and porcelain tureens.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018

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