Bibliography

Books

Barbier, Patrick. The World of the Castrati. Translated by Margaret Crosland. London: Sou-venir Press, 1988

Burney, Charles. A General History of Music. Vol. 2. 1782. Reprint, New York: Dover Publi-cations Inc, 1957.

Burney, Charles. The present state of music in France and Italy. London: T. Becket & Company, 1773

Cyr, Mary. Performing Baroque Music. Portland: Amadeus Press, 1992

Heriot, Angus. The Castrati in Opera. 2nd ed. London: Calder and Boyars, 1956

Pleasants, Henry. The Great Singers: From the Dawn of Opera to our own Time. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966

Somerset-Ward, Richard. The Story of Opera. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998

Journal Articles

Bloch, Gregory W. “The pathological voice of Gilbert-Louis Duprez”, Cambridge Opera Jour-nal 17, (2007): 11-31

Coughlan, Sean. “Singing in the Pain”, BBC News Magazine (March 2006)

De Marco, Laura E. “The Fact of the Castrato and the Myth of the Countertenor”, The Musical Quarterly 86 no.1 (Spring 2002): 174-185

Jenkins, J.S. “The voice of the castrato”, Lancet, 351 no.9119 (June 1998)

Law, Joe K. “Alessandro Moreschi Reconsidered: A Castrato on Records”, Opera Quarterly 2 no.2 (1984): 1-12

Pain, Stephanie. “Superstar Sopranos”, New Scientist 189 no.2544 (March 2006): 52-53

Potter, John “The Tenor-Castrato connection, 1760-1860”, Early Music 31 no.1 (2007): 97-112

CDs and DVDs

Sacrificium, Cecilia Bartolo with Il Giardino Armonico, conductor Giovanni Antonini. Decca Music Group Ltd., DDD 478 1521, Deluxe Limited Edition. CD. 2009.

Arias for Farinelli, Vivica Genaux with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, conductor Rene Ja-cobs. Harmonica Mundi, France. DDD B0000646XA. CD. 2002.

Moreschi - The Last Castrato: Complete Vatican recordings, Pearl “Opal” 9823. CD. 1993

Farinelli, Sony Pictures International. Directed by Gérard Corbiau. DVD. March 1994

Castrato, BBC Four Music. First broadcast June 2006.