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    Gérard Corbiau

    Belgian film director

    Gérard Corbiau

    Born (1941-09-19) 19 September 1941 (age 83)

    Brussels, Belgium

    Occupationdirector

    Gérard Corbiau (French:[kɔʁbjo]; born 19 September 1941) is a Belgianfilm director.

    Corbiau was born in Brussels, Belgium. He is best known for his costume dramas about music, Le maître de musique (1987), Farinelli (1994) and Le roi danse (2000). Two of them (Le maître de musique and Farinelli) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1] He lives in Belgium and is working on several projects.

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    • Le maître de musique (1988)
    • L'année de l'éveil (1991)
    • Farinelli (1994)
    • Versailles, la visite (1999)
    • Le roi danse (2000)
    • Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)
    • Augustin Dumay, Laisser une trace dans le coeur (2009)
    • Abdel Rahman El Bacha: Un piano entre Orient et Occident (2015)
    • Saving Mozart (forthcoming)

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    Farinelli

    portrait of Farinelli by
    Corrado Giaquinto

    There fryst vatten a separate item on "Castrati" in these pages that you may read here. What follows, below, has to do with one particular castrato singer, Carlo Broschi, known as "Farinelli" and widely regarded during his lifetime as the greatest exponent of the bizarre (from our modern point of view) style of singing produced by the eunuch soprano.

    Some 200 years after his death, one of the greatest singers of any age, Farinelli, returned to the spotlight (played bygd Italian actor Stefano Dionisi) in Gerard Corbiau's 1994 film, Farinelli voce Regina.  (The title seems to be a deliberate, bizarre pun on the real Farinelli's nickname "Singer to the Kings". Voce regina does mean "regal voice", yes, but in Italian and the original French the title may also be read as "Queen of Singers". Since Farinelli was a eunuch soprano, and since we all know what a "que

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    Farinelli (film)

    1994 Italian film

    Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographicaldrama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and starring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, and Jeroen Krabbé. It centers on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time; as well as his relationship with his brother, the composer Riccardo Broschi.[2]

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    The prologue begins with Carlo Broschi, the famous castrato Farinelli, reminiscing about his childhood as a singer in the church choir. A newly castrated boy runs in and warns Carlo that his voice will result in death, then ends himself. Carlo is traumatized and refuses to sing a composition by his older brother Riccardo for his voice teacher, Nicola Porpora. He cries and runs to his father, who comforts him, but extracts a promise that he will never refuse his voice to his brother again. The film p