Regina Mingotti

Regina Mingotti, born in Naples 16 February 1722, died Neuburg an der Donau 1 October 1808, was an operatic soprano.

Besides achieving great success as a performer in Germany, Spain, France, Britain and Italy, she composed and published songs and is notable for being the first woman to manage an opera company in London.

[2] She joined the opera company in Hamburg and sang there between 1743 and 1747, where she married the impresario Pietro Mingotti, but parted from him not long afterwards.

[3] While still with her husband, Regina relocated to Dresden, where she undertook further studies with the distinguished composer Nicola Porpora and scored great successes at the opera house, arousing the jealousy of that company's reigning prima donna Faustina Bordoni.

[2] She was praised by English musicologist Charles Burney as a ‘perfect mistress of her art’ of singing and equal in "musical intelligence" to any composer he was familiar with.