Voces emotivas : ¿una cuestión de huevos?

[...] But central to music in London as elsewhere at this time [XVIII] were the Castrati - men who has been castrated in their early teens to ensure that their voice never broke [...]But what did the voice sound like? Apparently is unique ability to move came from the delicacy of the boy soprano voice combined with the power of adult lungs.

Curiosly many of the most successful modern pop stars, such as Chris Martin from Coldplay and Tom Chaplin from Keane, use the highest register of their natural tenor voices to create songs that are particullary emotionally intense.The effect is without question reminiscent of the castrato voice.

London's strangest tales : Castrated singers

Pues no me había parado a pensar que la riqueza emotiva de las voces de Keane o Coldplay viniese de su semejanza con los castrati. La verdad es que siempre me he imaginado más a un castrati como un contratenor, aunque seguramente su registro sería más alto... bueno, más soprano ;)







 En realidad me imagino a Andreas Scholl. Un auténtico maestro.