Legendary Eunuch Opera Star Farinelli Had Post-Menopausal Disease

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Posted on Advocate.com August 31, 2011 06:25:00 PM ET
Legendary Eunuch Opera Star Farinelli Had Post-Menopausal Disease
By Diane Anderson-Minshall

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Farinelli, one of the greatest singers in opera history who died in 1782 apparently suffered from a disease generally only found in post-menopausal women, according toDiscovery News. In the first osteological analysis of a eunuch, the remains of the18th-century singer were exhumed in Italy in 2006 by researchers hoping to find out how Farinelli's prepubescent castration changed his biological makeup.