...length, as to excite incredulity even in those 'o heard him. Some persons actually imagined that he had the latent help of some instrument by which the...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration. When Farinelli first visited the court of Philip V. King of Spain, where he became afterwards so great...

...length, as to excite incredulity even in those who heard him. Some persons actually imagined that he had the latent help of some instrument by which the...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration. When Farinelli first visited the court of Philip V. King of Spain, where he became afterwards so great...

...incredulity even in those who heard him, who, though unable to detect the artifiee, imagined him to have the latent help of some instrument by which the tone...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration." At seventeen years of age, Farinelli was already ealled " un ragazzo divino" (a divine youth), and...

...voce seems to have been the quality in which he surpassed all other singers, and some of his hearers ' imagined him to have had the latent help of some instrument...tone was continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration2.' In the season of 1735 Porpora's opera of Poltfemo was brought out, and, by way of a...

...artificial economy of breath, he was able to protract to such a great length as to excite incredibility, even in those who heard him; who, though unable to...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration' (Burney 1935, 2:739; MacClintock 1979, 262). Regarding his tone quality, Burney said, 'Farinelli, without...