 Castrati were already prominent by this date in Italian church choirs, replacing both falsettists and trebles; the last soprano falsettist singing in Rome, Juan [Johannes de] San[c]tos (a Spaniard), died in 1652.In Italian opera, by the late seventeenth century castrati predominated, while in France, the modal high tenor, called the "haute-contre", was established as the voice of choice for leading male roles.In England Purcell wrote significant music for a higher male voice that he called a "counter-tenor", for example, the roles of Secrecy and Summer in "The Fairy-Queen" (1692).