Domenico Mustafà [SEP] voice type
Domenico Mustafà
Domenico Mustafà (16 April 1829 – 17 March 1912) was an Italian castrato singer, composer and choir director.
Life.
Domenico Mustafà was born in the comune of Sellano, province of Perugia and had been castrated due to a bite from a pig.
He became a famous soprano castrato with the Cappella Sistina in the Vatican. He was particularly admired for his performances of Handelian music. At his prime Mustafà possessed a voice of superior strength and beauty, and he mastered the trills and coloraturas
of Alessandro Moreschi, together they often used to visit their contemporary Domenico Mustafà in his retirement. Salvatori died in Rome. He is buried in the Monumental Cimitero di Campo Verano in Alessandro Moreschi's tomb. He recorded, along with Giovanni Cesari and Vincenzo Sebastianelli, a few phonograph recordings together with Alessandro Moreschi; but these were only pure choral pieces, and none of them were solo. It is, however, possible to hear him clearly as the contralto voice audible in a SATB quartet recording of Palestrina's "La cruda