![]() ![]() Those who proved mediocre mouldered away in parish choirs, but the successful "sacred monsters" were cosseted and adored. "I would have perfectly happily given up my masculinity for my art." Just over a century ago he would have got his wish: at the height of the craze for male sopranos, 5,000 boys a year were castrated in order to preserve their unbroken voices. "I regret not having been castrated," he says. M ost people think castrating choirboys is inhumane - but not singer Ernesto Tomasini.
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