Alessandro Moreschi

Alessandro Moreschi fascinates me less as a singer to be judged and more as a doorway to a vanished world. He is the only castrato who ever made solo recordings, which makes those crackling early discs something closer to archaeology than music criticism. Listening, you are hearing a vocal tradition that can never be recreated, captured at its very end by an aging man past his prime. Purists debate the sound quality endlessly, but I find that beside the point. What moves me is the sheer historical weight of one voice preserving an entire lost art for everyone who came after.

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Name (English)

Alessandro Moreschi

Name (Japanese)

アレッサンドロ・モレスキ

Reading

あれっさんどろ・もれすき

Born

November 11, 1858 – April 21, 1922

Origin

Monte Compatri, Province of Rome, Italy

Occupation

singer / opera singer / musician / castrato

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%20Moreschi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504969

Tags

• Province of Rome
• singer
• opera singer
• musician

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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