Baldassare Ferri (December 9, 1610 - September 10, 1680) was an Italiancastrato singer. December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... Events First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there. ... A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced by castration of the singer before puberty. ...
Ferri was born at Perugia, and went into the service of Cardinal Crescenzi, Archbishop of Orvieto, at the age of twelve. He is said to have possessed "extraordinary endurance of breath, flexibility of voice and depth of emotion". In 1625, an operatic performance resulted in Prince Ladislaus of Poland taking an interest in him, and he was taken to the Polish court, where he served three successive monarchs. In 1655 he moved on to the Viennese court, where he remained for twenty years. Perugia (population 150,000) is a city in the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. ... The site of Orvieto is an Etruscan acropolis. ... Events March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Reign in Poland From November 8, 1632 until May 20, 1648 Reign in Russia From 1610 until 1635 Elected in Poland On November 8, 1632 in Wola, today suburb of Warsaw, Poland Elected in Russia In 1610 Coronation On February 6, 1633 in the Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland Royal House... Events New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...
That between 1630 and 1650 the castrati, particularly those of the Roman school, which at that time was in the forefront, began to preactise singing on the breath and changing register, and that gradually other singers adopted their methods, apart from the doubts already raised about male altos and female contraltos.
Symbolic of this leap forward in technical skill is the male soprano BaldassareFerri.
The range of two octaves he is said to have had, the length of time he could hold a breath, and his habit of executing the most complex agility passages withou the slightest movement of his face muscles and wihtout varying the opening of his mouth, are indications of extremely elaborate phonation.
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