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Baroque sex crime: Cecilia Bartoli goes castrati in 'Sacrificium'

Started by Shana A, January 14, 2010, 08:50:58 AM

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January 14, 2010, 08:50:58 AM
Baroque sex crime

Cecilia Bartoli goes castrati in 'Sacrificium'
Published 01/14/2010

by Erin Blackwell

http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=682

On the cover of her new album Sacrificium , Cecilia Bartoli's head has been Photoshopped onto an antique marble torso complete with fissures but lacking tits, whose stone genitals have been knocked off. Hmmm. Cecilia, what are you trying to tell us?

The diva-cum-avid musical archeologist is projecting herself into the body of a castrato, the male instrument produced in Enlightenment Europe to replace the women's voices banned by papal edict in 1668. "On pain of severe punishment," decreed Pope Clement IX, "no female person shall deliberately learn music in order to be employed as a singer." God, the church has a lot to answer for.
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