When his saviors are exiled and his beloved leaves St. Now, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angel-a musico -yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. But it is this gift that will cause Moses' greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupil's voice, Ulrich has Moses castrated. There, he becomes the protégé of the Abbey's brilliant yet repulsive choirmaster, Ulrich. Rescued from certain death by two traveling monks, he finds refuge at the vast and powerful Abbey of St. But when his preternatural hearing was discovered-along with its power to expose the sins of the church-young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Shaped by the bells' glorious music, he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. Written as a confessional letter to his son, an 18th century opera singer recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europe's celebrated opera houses and reveals how he came to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired.
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