"I started singing in the hospital"
Once the English counteratradenor Alfred Deller (1912–1979), a German fan asked after the concert: "Sorry, sir, are you eunuch?" The singer replied: "No, Madame, I am unique." In English, these words sound like a pun (eunuch-unique ). But Deller was really a vocal unique. It was he who almost alone revived the art of singing the tallest of male opera voices, starting to sing a party of castrates in operas, so composers of the Baroque era (Monteverdi, Pirsell, Handel, etc.).