Felicita Casella née Lacombe (c. 1820–after 1865) was an Italian singer and composer of French birth. She was born at Bourges

Bourges

Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...

, the sister of Louis Lacombe

Louis Lacombe

Louis Lacombe [Trouillon-Lacombe] Louis Lacombe [Trouillon-Lacombe] Louis Lacombe [Trouillon-Lacombe] (November 26, 1818, Bourges (Cher)– September 30, 1884, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Marne) was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:...

. Before 1849 she married Italian cellist and composer Cesare Casella

Cesare Casella

Cesare Casella is a Italian chef, restaurateur, writer, consultant and educator. He is the owner and executive chef of Salumeria Rosi a salami shop and restaurant located in New York City's Upper West Side....

 and moved with him to Oporto.

Her opera Haydée was performed in Oporto in 1849 and again at the Teatro Dona Maria in Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

 in 1853, where Casella sang in the principal role. Her next opera Cristoforo Colombo was performed in 1865 at the Théâtre Impérial in Nice

Nice

Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...

.

Works

Casella composed two opera and other works including romances and pieces for voice and piano. Selected works include:

• Haydée, Portuguese opera (also Haidée, libretto by Luiz Felipe Leite after Alexandre Dumas’ Le Comte de Monte Cristo) 1849
• Cristoforo Colombo, opera (libretto by Felice Romani
  Felice Romani
  Felice Romani was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.-Biography:Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa,...
  
  ) 1865
• Marcia funebre (for Maria II) for piano
• Ave verum for voice and piano