This is a paraphrase, a parallel of an article, a story of a young boy in renaissance Italy, who, when the family got into dire straights, was exploited by an opera agent.
The agent introduced by a church choirmaster who charmed the boy and widower father.
Bottom line- you can be a star, now, as a whole boy, but then grow out of it into puberty, or snip off ur junk, and you can keep making money and keep game well into adulthood.
Many chose the latter over n over thru history into the present.
A eunuch develops grotesquely, although they maintain the "voice", but itsvcreepy to watch, so they say. Imagine Michael O w/o make-up.
So, they get pretty boys and
Ergo, Beyonce.
The last open castrato.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws
Enjoy the show