Lascia Ch’io Pianga, composed by Rinaldo, 1711 de Georg Friedrich Händel.
Clip from the film Farinelli, il Castrato.
The idea of how a castrato becomes a castrato is unbearably painful, but at least something beautiful comes out of it.
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Don’t ever wish to be anything but what you are.
— Mother (Thumbelina, 1994)
