To sing, one must have a combination of several things.

One: Passion. To feel the vibration of the music in every last inch of ones body, to feel the swelling and the ebbing of notes, chords, to know that music is more than just music

Two: Discipline. One cannot possibly sing full of uninhibited. passion. This makes the music reckless and overwhelming.

Three: Technique. The holding of breath, the annunciation, knowing when and how to go to falsetto and where your own voice might fail you.

Alessandro Moreschi has passion. possibly discipline. But no technique. Who in Gods name was this eunuchs maestro?!


ooc: Alessandro Moreschi was the only castrato to ever be recorded, as the practise of castration for musical purposes has since been outlawed. however, in Guido Maffeo's time, diring the eighteenth century, it was very common for this. Guido Maffeo was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples (Anne Rice, Cry to Heaven). He was the star soprano until he was eighteen and he lost his voice forever. He still teaches singing at the conservatorio where he studied as one of the finest, yet least compassionate, Maestros of his time. 

To hear the voice of a eunuch, please visit this site or go to www.singingfish.com and type in Alessandro Moreschi.

  http://bassocantante.com/opera/moreschi.ram