Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2012

The Return of the Castrato: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Andy-Sandberg-looking Italian actor portraying the title castrato of 1994 film, Farinelli.

This past season at the Met, I brought my very patient girlfriend to enjoy a Baroque opera pasticcio featuring the music of Handel, Vivaldi and others titled The Enchanted Island.  The most exciting part about this - for me, at least - was the return to the Metropolitan Opera stage of countertenors, or, gentlemen who sing like ladies.

 South Carolinian countertenor David Daniels as Prospero in The Enchanted Island.