Editing Farinelli (section)

==Portrayals of Farinelli in literature, film, radio, opera and theatre==
Farinelli is represented in [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]''.

A film, ''[[Farinelli (film)|Farinelli]]'', directed by [[Gérard Corbiau]], was made about Farinelli's life in 1994. This takes considerable dramatic licence with history, emphasising the importance of Farinelli's brother and reducing Porpora's role, while Handel becomes an antagonist; the singer's 22 years spent in the Spanish court is only vaguely hinted at, as well as his brother being appointed Minister of War. Farinelli's supposed sexual escapades are a major element of the film's plot, and are totally spurious according to historians (primarily, Patrick Barbier's "Histoire des castrats", Paris 1989).

In opera:  Farinelli is a character in the opera [[La Part du Diable]], composed by [[Daniel Auber]] to a libretto by [[Eugène Scribe]]; the title-role in the opera ''[[Farinelli (opera)|Farinelli]]'' by the English composer [[John Barnett]], first performed at [[Drury Lane]] in 1839, where his part is written for a tenor (this work is itself an adaptation of the anonymous {{lang|fr|Farinelli, ou le Bouffe du Roi}}, premiered in [[Paris]] in 1835). More recent operas include Matteo d'Amico's {{lang|it|Farinelli, la voce perduta}} (1996) and {{lang|de|Farinelli, oder die Macht des Gesanges}} by [[Siegfried Matthus]] (1998).

Composer and performer Rinde Eckert gives Farinelli's time in Spain a contemporary treatment in his 1995 work for radio, ''Four Songs Lost in a Wall'', commissioned by ''New American Radio''.

That period in his life is also the setting for ''[[Farinelli and the King]]'' (the king in question being [[Philip V of Spain]]), a play by [[Claire van Kampen]], which premiered at the [[Sam Wanamaker Playhouse]] from 11 February to 7 March 2015.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre/whats-on/sam-wanamaker-playhouse/winter-2014-2015-season |title=Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Winter 2014/15 Season |work=[[Shakespeare's Globe]]}}</ref> It was transferred to the [[Duke of York's Theatre]] in London's [[West End theater|West End]] in the final months of 2015, with the role of Farinelli doubled between speaking and singing, with [[Iestyn Davies]] performing the latter. Van Kampen's ''Farinelli and the King'' was performed on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the [[Belasco Theatre]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://farinelliandthekingbroadway.com/index.php|title=StackPath}}</ref> from 5 December 2017, to 25 March 2018.

Farinelli is portrayed by Raúl Ferrando in the episode "Fly Away" of the 2021 [[Netflix]] Original Series "[[The Cook of Castamar]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.antena3.com/series/cocinera-castamar/noticias/raul-ferrando-carlo-broschi_202104286089401b077f570001d902b2.html|title=Raúl Ferrando: "Carlo Broschi va a llegar a Castamar por un encargo"|website=[[Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)|Antena 3]]|date=28 April 2021}}</ref>