Word: castrato
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...band’s more zealous supporters will hail the album as yet another strong showing from the godfathers of modern dance music. Each track is a unique, vaguely interesting foray into synthesizers and beats—some even boast the accompaniment of Midas-touch producer Timbaland and pop-castrato Justin Timberlake. If the record ever makes it to the DJ booth, there will be a few intoxicated enough to dance to these songs, at least until they realize they’re not hearing Soulja Boy. That moment, however, will be the death rattle...
...kidding with his falsetto. It was not pure, not angelic, like the sweet-child voices of Brian and Carl Wilson on such Beach Boys tracks as "In My Room" and "God Only Knows." Valli's had a raspiness that gave his romantic pleas gravel, gravity, balls. This was no castrato, but a grown, yearning heterosexual male whose impossibly high voice set him apart, in tone and content, from the baritone norm, and made him perfect for all the outsider characters he would articulate in the Seasons' hits...
...together, thus innocently making a mess of his employer’s love life. “The Castrata” plunges the conceited composer Pizzicato into the Roman world of intriguing cardinals Di Gorgonzola and Manicotti, with a handsome prince and a cross-dressing, would-be castrato thrown in, to thoroughly complicate matters both musical and romantic. Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. 8 p.m. Tickets $5, $4 students, $4 seniors, $3 Adams House residents, available through the Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. Adams House Pool Theater...