He laughed at people who said that a castrato could not procreate.

But Guido was sneering in the direction of the great castrato.

As soon as the castrato began to sing Tonio was enthralled.

And the Pope had never granted a dispensation for a castrato.

This castrato had a fine voice, but his chief attraction was his beauty.

Mozart wrote this motet for a very accomplished Italian castrato.

And then very slowly he turned his head, gazing back at the old castrato.

Rome however was still the place for a castrato's debut, as far as Guido was concerned.

Any missteps and the monsignor will be able to join the castrato choir of his church.

Lorenzo, the castrato he had stabbed a month ago for tormenting him, was standing beside him.

Guido was moving away, and Piero, the blond-haired Milanese castrato, came up to Tonio at once.

In fact, the castrato's almost exquisite face seemed quite disfigured with rage before he had finished.

It was a castrato, it had to be!

As soon as he raised his voice alone in the chapel, he would really be a castrato.

Only old Rubino, the elderly castrato who would play the second man, announced cheerily that he would sing.

I think he is a very pretty 'castrato', and 'I have seen many as good-looking as he is.