Many countertenor singers perform roles originally written for a castrato in baroque operas. The role of Sesto was taken by castrato soprano, Domenico Bedini. Eighteen years earlier, Carlo and Riccardo watched an itinerant trumpet player humiliate a young castrato. Some of the alto parts of Handel's Messiah were first sung by a "castrato". The castrato Giovanni Carestini sang the role of Medarse. The demise of castrato singing meant that Metastasio's operas dropped out of the repertory. The first Orfeo was the famous castrato Gaetano Guadagni. The last famous Italian castrato, Giovanni Velluti, died in 1861. "Almira" is the sole example among Handel's many operas with no role for a castrato. Throughout the 1550s, Alfonso had an interest in Castrato singing voices. The last actual castrato singer, Alessandro Moreschi, died in 1922. Marian is an "endocrinological castrato" or "natural castrato". These included Petrillo, a musician famous for his beauty, and Cecchino, a Venetian castrato. The character Giasone was originally cast for a castrato.