EP 218 - Phantom of the Opera

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Apple for the Teacher

Ana Thomas

260 episodes

5 days ago

True crime stories in the school system – told by a teacher from Australia. For people looking for something different in the true crime genre, other than Ted Bundy or the Zodiac Killer. Diverse and lesser-known stories – an albino student murder in Africa, schoolgirl sexual slavery in Libya, a teacher beheaded in France, Polish teachers executed by the Nazis, just to name a few. School-based tragedies are also featured - a school bus stranded in a snowstorm, a school wiped out by a landslide, the drowning of students in a sinking ship. So join host Ana Thomas, as she presents the bad apples.

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EP 218 - Phantom of the Opera

Apple for the Teacher

33 minutes 23 seconds

2 years ago

EP 218 - Phantom of the Opera

This episode looks at a practice which was common in Italy from the 16th to 19th centuries. A practice which saw young boys subjected to a procedure which resulted in their vocal cords not changing with the onset of adolescence. And this was the procedure of castration. The result was that a lack of testosterone allowed these boys to keep their youthful singing voices. The term used to describe these boys was the castrati, quite an unfortunate choice of word. As the castrati progressed into manhood, their voices became very unique.

So in churches all over Italy, including the Sistine chapel, these men made careers from singing. Their voices were preferred over male singers and their dominance was helped because the Vatican had banned women from church choirs in the 1500’s. And with the development of opera, these men also had lucrative careers as opera singers. For three centuries, these singers became superstars of their time, demanding high sums for their services, singing in choirs and operas in Italy, but their fame also spread all over Europe.

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Sources -

https://allthatsinteresting.com/castrati?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-realhistoryuncovered&utm_content=later-35423875&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/arts/music/in-opera-a-different-kind-of-less-is-more-handel-and-the.html

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/what-is-a-castrato/

https://www.operaforall.co.uk/who-were-the-castrati/

https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2009/11/natures_rejects.html