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'Berenstat, Cuzzoni and Senesino' c1725.Artist: William Hogarth
'Berenstat, Cuzzoni and Senesino' c1725. The Italian opera singers Gaetano Berenstadt (c1687-1735), Francesca Cuzzoni Sandoni (1700-1770) and Francesco Bernardi, known as 'Senesino' (c1686-1758) performing Handel's opera 'Flavio'. Berenstadt and Senesino were 'castrati' - male singers who were castrated before puberty in order to maintain a high singing voice. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
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Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
ARTS
Berenstadt
Bernardi
Caricature
Castration
Castrato
country
Cuzzoni
Dress
eighteenth century
Emily Morse
Emily Morse Symonds
Entertainment
Eunuch
Female
FRANCESCA
Francesca Cuzzoni
Francesca Cuzzoni Sandoni
Francesco
Francesco Bernardi
Gaetano
Gaetano Berenstadt
Georg Friedrich Handel
GEORGE
George Frederick Handel
George Frideric
George Frideric Handel
George Paston
Handel
Hogarth
Italian
Italy
JOB
LADY
LOCATION
Male
Man
Men
music
OCCUPATION
Opera
OPERA SINGER
Paston
People
Print Collector6
PROFESSION
Sandoni
Senesino
Singer
Singing
soprano
stage
Symonds
TALL
The Print Collector
Theater
VOICE
W Hogarth
WILLIAM
WILLIAM HOGARTH
Woman
Women