On Jul 23, 2005, at 2:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I can't think of any where the castrato is specified for a young man's role.
Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo (original version) is one example, but I think you're on to something. The association of the treble voice with male youth seems to start right about when the baroque era is coming to an end, so that the main examples of such roles were created by female singers rather than castrati. In the baroque era, when castrati were still common, castrato roles were generally any hero regardless of age -- Orfeo, Giulio Cesare, etc.
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