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Originally Posted by shakran
I dunno, I think Kaddath has an interesting point. It's been done before. The Castrati were prized singers - - their name indicates what they had to do to achieve that status. Was it fair that they got hired to sing over other groups that chose not to castrate themselves?
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I don't know if you're serious about this, but as a musician I have to step in and say that the two situations aren't remotely similar. If anything, the castrato example works against your argument. The timbre of the castrato voice is completely different from any unaltered vocalist - there's even a recording of the last one floating around on the internt. Parts were written specifically for the castrato voice type. It's not like they were hired to sing parts written for boy sopranos or tenors.