1599年,阉人歌手正式出现在欧洲的声乐舞台上。他们高超的技艺、广阔的音域以及华丽、轻巧、纯净无比的声音,被狂热的观众赞誉为拥有“天使般声音”的歌者,并在欧洲的声乐舞台上独领风骚整整250年。而他们盛极一时的17、18世纪,亦被欧洲的一些学者称之为“美声学派的黄金时代” In 1599, the eunuch singer officially appeared on the vocal stage in Europe. Their superb craftsmanship, expansive sound range, and magnificent, lightweight and pure sound are praised by fanatical audiences as “angel-like” singers and have dominated the European vocal scene for 250 years. And their thriving 17th and 18th centuries were also described by some European scholars as “the golden age of the American acoustic school”