{{Short description|Italian composer and priest}} {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|date=December 2008|Licinio Refice}}
thumbnail|Licinio Refice '''Licinio Refice''' (Patrica, February 12, 1883 – Rio de Janeiro, September 11, 1954) was an Italian composer and priest. With Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi he represented the new direction taken by Italian church music in the twentieth century, and he left the popular song ''Ombra di nube'' (1935) as well as two completed operas.<ref>{{Cite web |last=C.D.S.C |date=2016-09-30 |title=Licinio Refice musicista |url=https://www.cdsconlus.it/index.php/2016/09/30/licinio-refice-musicista/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.cdsconlus.it |language=it-IT}}</ref>
His first opera ''Cecilia'', about the legend of Saint Cecilia, created a sensation with its premiere in 1934 in Rome at the Teatro Reale dell'Opera, with Marcello Govoni as Opera Director; Claudia Muzio took the title role. His second opera, ''Margherita da Cortona'', appeared in 1938. A third opera, ''Il Mago'' (1954), was left incomplete (within the first act). Refice died in 1954 during morning rehearsals of ''Cecilia'' in Rio de Janeiro; Renata Tebaldi was singing the title role.<ref>{{Cite web |title=REFICE, Licinio Goffredo Clinio Elpidio in "Dizionario Biografico" |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/licinio-goffredo-clinio-elpidio-refice_(Dizionario-Biografico) |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.treccani.it |language=it-IT}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Cardinal Messias'' (1939)
==Recordings of ''Cecilia''== At least five recordings exist of ''Cecilia'' (role key: conductor/Cecilia/Cieca/Valeriano/Amachio/Tiburzio/Urbano). * Refice/Tebaldi/Ulisse/Misciano/Meletti/Panerai/Neri - 1953, live in Naples – House of Opera (casting inaccurate on their site) * de Fabritiis/Pedrini/Marini/Misciano/Meletti/Dadò/Clabassi - 1954, live in Milan – Melodram (taping year confused with broadcast year on their site) * Campori/Scotto/Cornell-G/Theyard/Fourié/Palmer-T/Kavrakos - 1976, live in New York, abridged – VAI * Paganini/Negri/Barzola/Geraldi/Falcone/Sorarrain/Schwarz-W - 2008, video, Buenos Aires – New Ornamenti * Fracassi/Gavazzeni/Tomingas/Veneziano/Cappitta/Cappitta/Ristori - 2013, live in Monte Carlo – Bongiovanni
== Compositions ==
* ''Stabat Mater'' (1916). * ''Pomposia'' (1950). * ''Justorum animae.'' * ''Mottetti, varie raccolte.'' * ''Miserere.'' * ''Magnificat in Fa.'' * ''Lauda Jerusalem..'' * ''Liriche sacre e profane.'' * ''Salmi vari.'' * musica per l'''Inno a san Sisto I'' (patrono di Alatri).
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ChoralWiki}}
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