CASTRATO vs. ANDREAS SCHOLL,COUNTERTENOR Monday, January 12, 2009 CAFARELLI,IL CASTRATO----THE STAR OF ITALIAN CASTRATO Gaetano Majorano (12 April 1710 – 31 January 1783) was an Italian castrato and opera singer, who took his stage name Caffarelli from Domenico Caffaro, his patron. Like Farinelli , Caffarelli was a student of Nicola Porpora