UK

Castrato (5th July 2006) [PDTV(XviD)]

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• Rate this torrent +  |  -

Torrent info

Torrent Files List

Torrent description

This torrent was uploaded from www.TheBox.bz (signup is open and free) - the home of all British TV

Castrato

During the 18th-century craze for the pure, high voices of the castrati, approximately 100,000 boys were snipped in the name of opera. Many of them died on the operating table, but a few, such as Farinelli,were the undisputed superstars of 18th-century musical culture, driving crowds wild with their intoxicatingly androgynous virtuoso voices.

The counter-tenor and historian Nicholas Clapton analyses the anatomical mysteries of the castrato and the biological implications. He travels to Bologna, the adopted home of Farinelli and tells one of music’s greatest untold tales and tries to re-create, with computers, a legendary lost sound.

This program also features,for the first time in Britain, American male soprano Michael Maniaci, a young Baroque opera singer whose voice did not break at puberty, performs Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, a piece originally written for castrato Rauzzini.

Shown as part of BBC's The Century That Made Us season
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/18thcentury/[/url]

Broadcast
BBC 4
9pm - 10pm
5th July 2006

File Info
File Name ..........: Castrato - (20060712)(PDTV[XviD]).avi
Total Size (MB) ....: 531.56 MB

Video Length .......: 00:58:57
Video Codec Name ...: XviD MPEG-4 codec
Video Bitrate ......: 1004 KB/s
Resolution .........: 608 x 336
Aspect Ratio .......: 1.80:1
Framerate ..........: 25 FPS

Audio Codec Name ...: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
Audio Bitrate ......: 256 KB/s (CBR)
Channels ...........: 2 Ch
Sampling Rate ......: 48000 Hz

===============================

Some of the other rather spiffing shows available now and always if you signup free @ www.TheBox.bz:

Comedy: The Office, Peep Show, Coupling, Chef, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Young Ones, Monty Python, Blackadder, Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Coupling, Little Britain, Mr Bean, Extras, Green Wing, Mighty Boosh

Drama: Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Hustle, Skins, Shameless, Ashes To Ashes

Entertainment: Faking It, Derren Brown, Scrapheap Challenge, Strictly Come Dancing, Wife Swap

Game/Quiz Shows: Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Have I Got News For You, Deal Or No Deal (UK), Q.I.

Education/Documentary: Planet Earth, Horizon, Panorama, Mark Thomas (Comedy) Product

Food: Hell's Kitchen, Jamie Oliver, The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Masterchef, Great British Menu, Gordon Ramsay's Cookalong

Home/Property/Garden: Property Ladder, How Clean Is Your House?, Changing Rooms, Grand Designs, Homes Under The Hammer, To Buy Or Not To Buy

Motoring: Top Gear, Fifth Gear

Music: Top Of The Pops, Jools Holland, Glastonbury

Reality: Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, Any Dream Will Do, Grease, Pop Idol, Wife Swap, X Factor, Badger Or Bust, Apprentice UK, Dragons' Den, Britain's Got Talent

Sci-Fi: Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Torchwood, Primeval

Sport: Football (Soccer), Cricket, Rugby, Snooker, Darts, Formula One (F1GP)

Soaps: Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Hollyoaks

Style/Fashion: What Not To Wear, Project Catwalk

Kids: Teletubbies, Blue Peter, Tikkabilla, Andy Pandy, Postman Pat, Shoebox Zoo, Brum, Bob The Builder, Young Dracula, Sarah Jane Adventures, Shaun The Sheep

related torrents

comments (0)