• 3.35 Opera and gender construction

• 5.36 “Tuneful scarecrows”: orchiectomy and its effects

• 6.35 Masters of the voice: the castrato training

• 9.20 Voice and femininity

• 11.25 The ambivalence of the church

• 13.10 The apex of the castrati era

• 14.03 The end of the castrati era

• 17.49 The influence of the Cecilian movement on religious music

• 20.37 The legacy of the castrati

Today’s speakers are Noemi André and Nicholas Clapton.