Música - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 16:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Música - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The concert (The theft of the amulet) https://historylab.es/the-concert-the-theft-of-the-amulet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-concert-the-theft-of-the-amulet Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-concierto-el-robo-del-amuleto/ Cultural history

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]]> A work by Gherardo delle Notti (Gerrit van Honthorst), a Dutch Caravaggesque painter who specialised in nocturnal scenes. It is a scene of vanity, due to the fleetingness of time that is the pleasure of music. But it has a second reading, the theft of the singer’s amulet by the other three characters.

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]]> Farinelli https://historylab.es/farinelli/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farinelli Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:23 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/farinelli/ Biographical film about the life and career of the opera singer Farinelli.

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]]> Italian-Belgian-French co-production, about the life of Carlo Broschi “Farinelli”, considered the most important castrated singer of all times. The plot is based on real events, although there are many elements that are not true to life. It won the Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1995. Farinelli had a great career at the main European courts (Milan, Vienna, London, Madrid). Castration was a method of producing male sopranos or altos. It was banned by Pope Leo XIII in the 19th century.

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