Definition of "castrati" [castrati]

• Plural form of castrato. (noun)

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• "This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality."
• "-- S.J. eunuchs: the castrati were the great singers of Italian opera at this time."
• "The conventional wisdom is that Rauzzini was one of those unfortunate boys castrated or snipped on the orders of choirmasters in an age when the castrati were the most revered and celebrated of singers."