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Anna Moffo
12+ albums
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Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an Italian-American lyric-coloratura soprano admired for her warm and radiant voice and great beauty. Anna Moffo was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA to Italian parents, Nicola Moffo, a shoemaker, and his wife Regina Cinti. After graduating from Radnor High School, she turned down an offer to go to Hollywood and went instead to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Eufemia Giannini-Gregory, sister of soprano Dusolina Giannini. In 1954, on a Fulbright Program scholarship, she left for Italy to complete her studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where she was a pupil of Mercedes Llopart and Luigi Ricci. Moffo made her official operatic debut in 1955 in Spoleto as Norina in Don Pasquale. Shortly after, still virtually unknown and little experienced, she was offered the challenging role of Cio-Cio-San in an Italian television (RAI) production of Madama Butterfly. The telecast aired on January 24, 1956, and made Moffo an overnight sensation throughout Italy. Offers quickly followed and she appeared in two other television productions that same year, as Nannetta in Falstaff and as Amina in La Sonnambula. She appeared as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and made her recording debut for EMI as Nannetta (Falstaff) under Herbert von Karajan, and as Musetta in La Bohème with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Rolando Panerai. The following year (1957) saw her d
top songs
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Summertime (From "Porgy And Bess")
2,4132Der Favorit, Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein
8983Una Voce Poco F'a
5624In Fondo Ai Miei Occhi
3385Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)
1926Carmen/Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (Micaela's Air) (2005 SACD Remastered)
1897Verdi: La Traviata: Prelude - Act One
1708Madama Butterfly: Un bel di
1629Verdi: La Traviata: Un di, felice, eterea - Act One
13910Joy To The World
130albums
Anna Moffo - The Complete RCA Recital Albums
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La Traviata
Arias from Faust; La Bohème; Dinorah; Carmen; Turandot; Semiramide; Lakmé
Arias from Faust, La bohème, Dinorah, Carmen, Turandot, Semiramide, Lakmé
Mozart Arias
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Madame Butterfly Hits
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Klassieke Muziek voor Zondagochtend
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Classical Music Library, Vol. 8: American Classics
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Donizetti: La fille du régiment (Live) [Sung in Italian]
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La Bohème: Puccini
Verdi: La Traviata
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne - Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 - Rachmaninoff: Vocalise