NOT AT all need AUTHENTIC VOICE BUT THAT IT IS BEAUTIFUL !!!

This column focuses on the soundtrack, atypical film.

Indeed, we are told that we have "tried to reconstruct the voice of Farinelli." The problem is that given the period to which lived Farinelli (1705-1782), it could not be based on written documents.

In reality, the voice was performed by mixing two voices, that of Ewa Malas-Godlewska (coloratura soprano) and Derek Lee Ragin (against-tenor), all under the leadership of Christophe Rousset conducting the baroque ensemble "Les Talents lyrical ". The mixing was done through special effects through a computer.

Oops, nothing indicates that this voice is close to that of a castrato (A castrato is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to maintain the high register of his childlike voice, while enjoying the sound coming from the thoracic capacity by an adult.) Instead, the result is quite far (but it is relative taking into account that all castrati did not have the same voice and especially the poor technical) is meant to listen to the only castrato to have recorded (between 1902 and 1904): Alessandro Moreschi (like what the prohibition of castration, in the late eighteenth Bachelor by Pope Clement XIV, put time to come be applied since we can cite other castrati nineteenth Bachelor Domenico Salvatori, Mustafà Domenico and Giovanni Cesari). Note that Giovanni Cesari recorded with the choir of the Sistine Chapel but his voice is almost inaudible. Curiously, this recording was made by Fred Gaisberg who was the first to record Caruso, the same year (1902).

I do not like this kind of hack (for when mounting a duet between Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso?) And I sanction at the note.

But there, the music is so sublime that all is forgiven.

A large disk, even Farinelli's voice could not be faithfully reconstructed, pays tribute to his art.