Category

Castrati

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thumb|The 18th-century castrato Farinelli, painted by [[Bartolomeo Nazari]]

Farinelli (; 24 January 1705 – 16 September 1782) was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (), a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera, composer, and musician. Farinelli was a soprano castrato, with a range from approximately F3-D6.

thumb|Senesino c. 1720 right|thumb|Senesino in 1735, by Van Haecken after Hudson thumb|Portrait of the contralto castrato Francesco Bernardi, better known under his stage name Senesino; at the same time a parody of the castrati and their singing – and the wealth they earned with it. The lines beneath the portrait read, in Italian and English: "Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name / Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame / While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring / The Deaf may wonder whence his Merits spring / But all think Fortune just, that hear him sing".

Alessandro Moreschi

Italian castrato singer (1858–1922)

Italian opera singer

Antonio Bernacchi

Italian opera singer (1685-1756)

Girolamo Crescentini

Italian singer castrato

Italian opera singer

Italian opera singer

Gaspare Pacchierotti

Italian opera singer

Gaetano Guadagni

Italian opera singer (1728-1792)

Gioacchino Conti

Italian opera singer (1714-1761)

Francesco Antonio Pistocchi

Italian singer and composer

Giovanni Carestini

Italian castrato singer (1700-1760)

Nicolo Grimaldi

Italian opera singer

Giovanni Battista Velluti

Italian opera singer, castrato

Venanzio Rauzzini

Italian opera singer and teacher (1746-1810)

Marc'Antonio Pasqualini

Italian opera singer and composer (1614-1691)

Baldassare Ferri

Italian opera singer

Giuseppe Aprile

Italian castrato singer and music teacher (1732-1813)

Pier Francesco Tosi

Italian castrato singer, composer and writer on music

Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

Italian singer and music historian

Giovanni Francesco Grossi

Italian opera singer (1653–1697)

Italian singer and composer

Giovanni Manzuoli

Valentino Urbani

Italian violinist, castrato and composer (1640-1697)

Domenico Mustafà

Italian composer (1829–1912)

Domenico Annibali

18th century Italian castrato

Francisco Soto de Langa

Spanish composer (1534-1619)

Giuseppe Millico

Italian opera singer

Giacinto Fontana

thumb| Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio (1667 - 15 October 1737), was a famous Italian castrato, also called "the nightingale of Naples" (il rosignuolo di Napoli) because of his extremely beautiful soprano voice and virtuoso singing.

Felice Salimbeni

Italian soprano castrato (1712-1755)

Giusto Fernando Tenducci

Italian castrato opera singer and compose in Britain; (1736-1790)

Valeriano Pellegrini