From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Alan Cairns says...
> > Check out music sites, you can purchase
> > recordings of castrati.
>
> Can you really? I thought the practice had died out 200 years ago. I would
> just love to have heard Farinelli.

I recall that there are recordings from the early 1900s from one late castrato. The
singing is heavily stylized -- much dipping and tonal variations. To me, it makes
the "opportunity" to hear it unworth the effort.

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