It’s hard to say with any certainty whether that’s what he – or indeed any other castrato – really sounded like in his prime. In modern times castrato roles are sung by female singers or ...

Helen Berry's portrait of celebrated 18th-century castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci and his love affair with young Irish girl Dorothea Maunsell. Read by Greta Scacchi. Overture from Artaserse by ...