Camillo Jorge Dias Cabral (ca. 1749–ca. 1805), born in Lisbon, was one of the few Portuguese castrati known to history. At the age of nine or ten, he was admitted to the Royal Patriarchal Music Seminary, later traveling to Naples in June 1760 to continue his musical studies at the Conservatory of Sant’Onofrio a Capuana, with the support of the Portuguese crown. He studied alongside João de Sousa Carvalho, Jerónimo and Braz Francisco Lima, Joaquim de Oliveira, and José de Almeida.
After returning to Lisbon at the end of 1774, he was appointed Master at the Royal Seminary, while also engaging in compositional activity, although apparently to a very limited extent.¹
