[Sacrifice was an art: the voice of the castrato].

Introduced in Europe through the mozarabic civilization during the IXth century, the castrato will reign on Baroc Opera theaters in Europe in the XVllth and XVlllth century and will progressively disappear in the XIXth century. Castration is responsible pour morphologic changes not only of the larynx, but also of the skeleton and visceral tissues. These anatomic particularities mixed with a stupefying vocal technic, will create one of the most extraordinary vocal phenomenon of the history of singing, but the price to pay was so high.

[Partiturogram: (new) tool in the evaluation of an opera roles].

The partiturogram is a tool that was defined in the 1990s by Franco Fussi. It aims to display all the music notes of an opera role as a histogram. Several parameters are then calculated in order to define the vocal profile of the role, as well as help the singer choose from various options.

[Callas or the trajectory of the meteor].

The lyric career of Maria Callas, though exceptional, is also noteworthy for its brevity. The first signs of downturn appeared at the age of 36 and her voice fell silent at only 40. Though the literature has massively commented on this premature worsening, few analyses of its characteristics have been made public so far The purpose of our study was to realise a perceptual and acoustical analysis of recorded arias by the artist at the climax to the fall.

[Evaluation of vocal abuse by the patient and correlation with vocal cords lesions].

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the recognition by the patient of quantitative vocal abuse and its assessment.

Materials And Methods: 336 files of patients presenting with dysphonia were evaluated with a questionnaire composed of 4 items. We compared the patients, evaluation of their vocal abuse with the presence or absence of benign lesions on the vocal cords.

[Recurrent acoustic neurinoma after complete surgical resection].

Background: Mortality of acoustic neurinoma surgery is currently very low, well below the figures reported by the first surgeons. Morbidity has also declined with attempts at preserving the facial function and more recently hearing function. Long-term follow-up has demonstrated the well-known risk of recurrence after partial resection, but also evidenced a risk after complete resection.