You are invited to a series of lectures by Tatjana Rozman, M.A. On Thursday, February 16th, we will talk about celebrity popularity and bans on performing on musical stages. Lecture title: Castrati, angelic voices or fallen apparitions.

Singing castrati are a special feature of Western culture. Castration created voices in a very special way that thrilled listeners from the early Baroque period until their singing was banned.

Key highlights of the topic: Who were the castrati? The crucial relationship between the function of the human voice in music and the power of the word that the voice utters. The mission of opera as an attempt to create a mythical phantasm on the threshold of the birth of bourgeois society. The Enlightenment and the new aesthetic criteria of classicism.