ABSTRACT
Many of the details of Regina Mingotti's life in the years between the end of her 1756-57 season and her reappearance at the opera house for the 1763-64 season remain unaccounted for. In 1758, she appeared as a soloist in Giardini's concerto spirituale at Drury and at a benefit concert for Joseph Tacet in the Great Room in Dean Street, Soho, on 14 April; on 4 May 1759, she was again at a concerto spirituale, this time at Covent Garden. Although it is not known what items Mingotti sang at these concerts, her performances at the concerto spirituale may have included Pergolesi's Stabat Mater: announced for both programmes, it was one of her most frequently performed non-operatic works. After the point at which Mingotti relinquished control of the opera house, the history of opera management in London becomes even sketchier, and the narrative that follows is somewhat speculative.
