Previous posts for January 24th are here: Frederick the Second; E. T. A. Hoffmann (2020), E. T. A. Hoffmann (2021), Vítězslava Kaprálová (2022), Farinelli (2023), Ray Stevens (2024), and Vítězslava Kaprálová (2025)
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Farinelli [Carlo Broschi] (24 January 1705 – 16 September 1782) was one of the greatest of the Italian castrato opera singers. He was also a composer.
Farinelli from the Madding Crowd
The craze for Farinelli was a fad
The likes of which the Brits had never had.
The nobles and the gentry strove to hear him,
To sing his praises, worship, and revere him.
How good it was for men like Farinelli
To live before addiction to the telly,
When leisured folks still left their homes in flocks
To bravo bravely from a private box;
When earls, and dukes, and even passing doges,
Would leave estates to ogle from their loges.
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