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.
His first opera Cecilia, about the legend of Saint Cecilia, created a sensation with its premiere in Rome in 1934; Claudia Muzio took the title role. His second opera Margherita da Cortona had its premiere in 1938. A third one, Il Mago (1954), was left incomplete (within the first act).
Refice died in 1954 during a performance of Cecilia in Rio de Janeiro; Renata Tebaldi was singing the title role in the performance.
In 1993, VAI published an abridged recording of a 1976 concert version of Cecilia (seen at Lincoln Center), featuring Renata Scotto and Harry Theyard.