Domenico Mombelli (13 January 1755 – 15 March 1835) was an Italian operatic

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and composer. Born in

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, Mombelli was the head of a distinguished family of singers and musicians that included his first wife, Luisa Laschi who created the role of Countess Almaviva in '' The Marriage of Figaro''; his second wife, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli who wrote the libretto for Rossini's '' Demetrio e Polibio''; and his daughters

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and Anna, both of whom had successful careers as opera singers. He was also the founder and head of a travelling opera company which performed in Lisbon, Padua, and Milan from 1806 to 1811. Amongst his compositions were the opera ''Didone'' to a libretto by

Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early life Me ...

, several oratorios, and three collections of arias for voice and piano. Mombelli spent his final years teaching singing in Bologna where he died at the age of 80.

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