Crossword-Solution: CASTRATO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Castrato | n. | A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CASTRATO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Singer of high notes | 1 answer |
| a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | 1 answer |
| IMPOTENT person | 5 answers |
| insubstantial thing | 72 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CASTRATO (5)
Petto di Castrato all'Italiana (Breast of Mutton) Ingredients: Breast of mutton, veal, forcemeat, eggs, herbs, spice, Parmesan.
Lingue di Castrato alla Cuciniera (Sheep's Tongues) Ingredients: Sheep's tongues, bacon, beef, onions, herbs, spice, eggs, butter, flour.
She made rapid progress in music, and at the end of six months she felt sufficient confidence in herself to sign an engagement with a theatrical manager who took her to Vienna to give her a 'castrato' part in one of Metastasio's operas.
The size of his hips made me take him for a woman dressed in men's clothes, and I said so to Gama, who told me that he was the celebrated castrato, Bepino delta Mamana.
The mother presented to, me her other son, likewise very good-looking, but more manly than the 'castrato', although younger.
Quotes with CASTRATO (3)
All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed that my gratification is becoming diluted by a certain weary indignation. They tell me because they regard me as safe. All of them, they make their disclosures to me in the same spirit that they might tell a castrato or a priest - …
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.
Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex appeal and musical kleptomania focusing on Western hits from the 1970s. Spice it up with a political flexibility rare even for Central European standards and a personal status close to that of the Pope. What do you get? Karel Gott, Czech pop music's most mega-super, long-lasting and brightest star.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2018).