Radu Marian [SEP] voice type
Radu Marian
Radu Marian (; born in 1977) is a Moldovan male soprano or sopranist.
He possesses a pure soprano voice in the range of C4 to C6, and he is considered an important singer in Baroque music. His repertoire incorporates cantatas written for soprano by composers like Handel, Bononcini, Carissimi, and Frescobaldi, and the repertoire of the old castrati. He has been called "the Baroque nightingale" by the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera".
Marian is an "endocrinological castrato" or "
"The Castrati as a Professional Group and a Social Phenomenon, 1550–1850", ("Acta Musicologica", LX, Basel, 1988)
- Tougher, S (ed): "Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond" (London, 2002)
External links.
- All you would like to know about Castrati
- Castrados por amor al arte
- Singing Voice: Castrati
- Recordings:
- Antonio Maria Bononcini's "Vorrei pupille belle", sung by Radu Marian
- 1904 Recording of