Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
I think that puts them in another category altogether - "male sporano" or some such.

When they made the film about Farinelli they combined a good falsettist and a woman's voice to try to get the right effect - they only had some old 78's to go on of a real one.

They obviously didn't think that the male sopranos qualified to make the sound.
Well, in all the lists of vocal ranges that I could find, Castrati were listed, albeit with the qualifier that true castrati are no longer with us (a fact for which I think we should be thankful), but that the range is covered by male sopranos.