Radu Marian in concert with ensemble aliusmodum.

Radu Marian was born in 1977 in what was then the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to a family of Moldovan artists. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( Moldovan: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ or Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovans, or Moldavians (original name Moldoveni; Молдовень in the Moldovan Cyrillic script, used nowadays only in Transnistria

His exceptional musical talent started at the age of seven and executed in French the aria: Queen of the Night of Mozart’s Magic Flute. The Magic Flute (German Die Zauberflöte, K 620 is an Opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart He is gifted with a pure soprano voice in the range of C4 to C6 considered at present a great talent of Baroque music. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. Marian completed his singing and piano studies in Moscow and in Bucharest, obtaining the title of Concert Master, with great merits. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Bucharest ( Romanian: Bucureşti) is the Capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania.

He was granted a scholarship by the Moldovan government and under Flavio Colusso received vocal training in Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest His repertoire incorporates cantatas written for soprano by composers like Handel, Bononcini, Carissimi and Frescobaldi and the repertoire of the old castrati. A cantata (derived from the Italian word 'cantare' meaning 'to sing' is a vocal composition with an instrumental Accompaniment and often This article is related to a series of articles under the main article Voice type. Giovanni Battista Bononcini ( 18 July 1670 - 9 July 1747) was an Italian Baroque Composer and Cellist Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18 1605 &ndash January 12 1674 was an Italian Composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, The Frescobaldi Family is a prominent Florentine family that has been involved in the political sociological and economic history of the Tuscany region since the The renowned conductor Flavio Colusso affirms that Radu Marian is a sopranista whose voice is different from the other countertenors and sopranistas, of the Baroque music world. A sopranist (also sopranista or male soprano) is a male classical singer who is able to sing in the vocal Tessitura of a Soprano usually through This article is related to a series of articles under the main article Voice type. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. His voice does not sound like a falsetto's, but like that of a soprano. Marian is an "Endocrinological castrato" or "natural castrato". A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, or Contralto voice produced either by Castration

External links

• The World of the Castrati and Male Soprano
• Radu Marian
• Los Castrati
• Extract (RealMedia) from an Aria from Sul margine adorato by Antonio Maria Bononcini
• [1] (A large collection of slideshows with audio file of the voice of Radu Marian by SFK)
• Another extract (mp3), a Largo Recitativo from Vorrei Pupille Belle Con Violini by Antonio Maria Bononcini
• Radu Marian singing Der Hölle Rache

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