Brandon Jovanovich

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435 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Fandom of the Opera: A Linebacker, a White Whale... and a Secret · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

It's part of their language.

You go into a grocery store and you hear opera in the background.

But there's definitely a lot of opera here in the States that you just don't even realize.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, yeah.

You have these young boy singers, and they sing, and they have this high soprano sound, and it's really crystalline, and they still sing like this in London and in a lot of European countries, maybe over here, too.

I'm sure there's one or two beautiful voices.

And back in the day...

You had a good voice and you needed a career.

They would say, we're keeping that voice yours before testosterone kicks in.

We're going to go ahead and neuter you.

And they would snip the testes off of these kids.

And their voices are going to be like this their whole life.

And they were just celebrated because they gave up their manhood for this art form.

I mean, it wasn't against their will.

I mean, you know, maybe they wanted to at the time.

So Enrico Caruso, he came over and he had these huge, huge, you know, probably the equivalent of singing for a million dollars a night, you know.

And he was one of the most famous, but there was plenty of people that had the same sort of fanaticism behind them and people wanting their autograph and whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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