Helen Berry's portrait of celebrated 18th-century castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci ... performed by Emma Kirkby and The Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Christopher Hogwood Air d ...

In modern times castrato roles are sung by female singers or by countertenors like Iestyn Davies (below). Countertenors' voices have broken like any other adult male's, but they use a combination ...

Famous singers: June Anderson; Maria Callas; Edita Gruberova; Sumi Jo; Nellie Melba; Adelina Patti; Beverly Sills; Dame Joan Sutherland. Castrati were male singers whose unbroken voices were ...