Anna Moffo . America soprano
(June 27, 1932 – March 9, 2006)
Please click to hear the duet from "Die Schone Galathée" by Franz von Suppe
Anna Moffo and Renee Kollo.
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This is the awakening scene in the operetta when the beautiful statue of Galathée comes to life to the joy of Pygmalion .He prayed to Venus to changes this beautiful statue into flesh and blood .This turns out not to be what he wished for, as Galathée is unfaithful and finds his servant Ganymede more attractive. At the end he prays to Venus to change her back into a statue and he sells her to Midas.
This is the awakening scene in the operetta when the beautiful statue of Galathée comes to life to the joy of Pygmalion .He prayed to Venus to changes this beautiful statue into flesh and blood .This turns out not to be what he wished for, as Galathée is unfaithful and finds his servant Ganymede more attractive. At the end he prays to Venus to change her back into a statue and he sells her to Midas.
Anna Moffo was born in Wayne Pennsylvania, USA to Italian parents, Nicola Moffo (a shoemaker) and his wife Regina Cinti. After graduating from Radnot 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 Dusolino Giannini . In 1954, on a Fulbright 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 ".After that she he appeared in all the top opera houses of the world - La Scala ,the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She had a very successful career as coloratura in Europe as well as America.
She was very popular in Italy and had her won television program there.
In the early 1970s, she began appearing on German television and in operetta films such as "Die Csardasfurstin " and "Die Schone Galathée" The recording above is from this era .
The beautiful Anna Moffo in Verdi's "La Traviata"
Metropolitan Opera 1966
Metropolitan Opera 1966
Here she is with Nicolai Gedda in this role .
Anna Moffo 1962
Anna Moffo was a very beautiful woman , and it annoyed her that people spoke about her looks more than her voice. It was a rather small voice . I never liked it too much in opera recordings and she tended to make it all sound to sweet and sugary. It recorded very well. I did love the voice in operetta and here one can here how beautiful the voice was.
She died in New York in 2006 of cancer where she lived the last years of her life.
She died in New York in 2006 of cancer where she lived the last years of her life.
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