Giovanna Sestini

Giovanna Sestini (6 April 1749 – 14 July 1814) was a soprano opera singer who performed in her native Italy, in Portugal, and from 1774 in London, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Giovanna Sestini was baptised 7 April 1749 in the Pieve di San Martino a Gangalandi [it] in the small town of Lastra a Signa, near Florence.

These included Giovanna and Anna Sestini who sang in Italian opera at the new Teatro da Rua dos Condes in Lisbon from 1768 until 1774.

His family disapproved when he formed a liaison with a beautiful Italian opera singer,[3] but he and Giovanna Sestini married and two sons were born before they moved to London.

Her third son was born on New Year's Day 1775 and baptised Joseph Christian Stocqueler in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Portuguese Embassy Chapel in Mayfair.

Joanna Stocqueler died on 14 July 1814, two years after her husband, at their last home in Broad Street Buildings, Bishopsgate, in the City of London.