On 23 Jul 2005 at 14:22, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Jul 23, 2005, at 2:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > I can't think of any where the castrato is specified for a young > > man's role. > > Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo (original version) is one example, but I > think you're on to something. . . .
Idamante is not a teenager. He's a young man, no? In his early 20s? Secondly, if I'm remembering correctly, Idamante is one of the lead roles, not a secondary role, as is usually the case with the young male/teenage roles that I thought you were speaking of. > . . . The association of the treble voice > with male youth seems to start right about when the baroque era is > coming to an end, so that the main examples of such roles were created > by female singers rather than castrati. In the baroque era, when > castrati were still common, castrato roles were generally any hero > regardless of age -- Orfeo, Giulio Cesare, etc. I think your original formulation was mistaken, then, no? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
