Word: moffo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early death. In Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French libretto, but Conductor Thomas Schippers had a poetic command of the music...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Season premiere. Tonight's guests include Anna Moffo, Rudolf Nureyev, Richard Tucker and Robert Preston...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo and Martha Wright...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Rhonda Fleming, Mischa Elman, Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, Earl Wrightson and Benny Goodman and his orchestra sing and make music. Color...
...produces plenty of good voices, but it frequently falls short when it comes to exercising them: the likes of Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss...