"Society is like sexual behavior, in that no one knows what perversions it may develop once aesthetic considerations are allowed to dictate its choices."
From gggg gggg@ggggg9271@gmail.com to rec.music.opera on Sat Mar 11 11:20:14 2023
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Does what Proust said apply to the castrati?:
- Pope Sisto V, aware that the public craved the "voice of angels", sanctioned their presence in the Vatican by a papal bull in 1589.