Domenico Reina

He joined John Ebers's company at the King's Theatre, Haymarket and in 1823 sang in the first London performances of Gioachino Rossini's operas Ricciardo e Zoraide, La donna del lago and Matilde di Shabran.

[2] Reina returned to Italy and sang in the theatres of Rome, Venice, Turin, Bologna, Parma and Livorno.

At the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, he created the role of Decio in Mercadante's La vestale in 1840.

In Rossini operas, he also sang Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, the title-roles in Otello and Maometto II, Antenore in Zelmira, Idreno in Semiramide, Osiride in Mosè in Egitto, Amenofi and Elisero in the revision (Mosè e Pharaone) and Norfolk in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra.

For other composers, he sang Comingio in Pacini's Adelaide e Comingio, Appio Diomede in his L'ultimo giorno di Pompeii and the title role in his Furio Camillo, Medoro in Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio and Pisano in Mercadante's Il bravo.