A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Mingotti, Catharine

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MINGOTTI, CATHARINE,

A celebrated Italian singer, was born at Naples, in 1728. After the death of her father, who was a German, Catharine entered a convent, where she was instructed in music. When she was fourteen she left the convent, and some time after married Mingotti, director of the opera at Dresden. Here she was very much admired, and sang at the theatre, before the king. Her reputation soon extended through Europe, and under the direction of the celebrated Farinelli, she visited most of the principal cities on the continent, and also came to London. She died at Munich, in 1807. She was a highly educated and intellectual woman.