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Farinelli(1994)

Dir. Directed by Gérard Corbiau


The film […] attempted to re-create the sound of the greatest of all castrati, Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, by recording the voices of the Polish soprano Ewa Matas-Godlewska and the American countertenor Derek Lee Ragin separately, and then digitally merging them. It proved that a voice from the past can’t yet be resurrected.

Peter Phillips (London Review of Books)

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Synopsis: The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.