[Milton-L] RE: Milton and Haydn

[Hannibal Hamlin]

It's also worth remembering that the heroic roles (Julius Caesar, Samson,
etc.) in baroque opera were generally sung by men -- castratos -- who, given
the hormonal results of surgery, were like nothing living today. Imagine
perhaps a counter-tenor the size of a football player with the vocal power
of Jessye Norman.

Remember too that the angels can "either sex assume or both."

Hannibal


On 5/22/09, Flinker at research.haifa.ac.il <Flinker at research.haifa.ac.il>
wrote:
>
>
> You might want to have a look at my thoughts on Haydn's Creation some years
> ago:
> "Miltonic Voices in Haydn's Creation." Milton Studies 27 (1991): 139-62.
>
> Noam Flinker
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Hannibal Hamlin
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The Ohio State University
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