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The film industry has an unfortunate history of mangling music history. There is the 1994 Farinelli, a ‘biopic’ which mutilated the history of eighteenth-century castrato Farinelli, stage name of Carlo Broschi (1705 — 1782). If deciding between the sensationalism and prurience of castration or looking at the legacy of a man who helped shape opera as a g…

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