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...life on winning the cold Turandot, is as handsome as any tenor who ever walked the Met stage, has a big, bronze voice that he can fling forth most of the time without strain; but often he lacks taste and sacrifices lyricism to masculinity, style to strut. Anna Moffo, as Liù, makes the part far more than the usual sweet rag doll: singing with impeccable beauty of tone but also with surprising force, she gives the character backbone, thus rendering plausible the scene in which she chooses to die rather than to betray Calaf...
Upon arriving at her summer villa near Parma, the Metropolitan Opera's latest girl wonder, pretty, Pennsylvania-born Soprano Anna Moffo, was asked by a spokesman for several Italian opera companies to restrain the Italian press from swooning in print over "L'Esotica's" glamorous charms-the home-grown prima donnas are hitting high "C with jealousy. But Anna only shrugged: "Who ever heard of telling the press what to say? I'm not in the business of smoothing the ruffled feathers of other divas! Opera is a dog-eat-dog business...
...bother him in the least: "Debeljevic doesn't work very easily on the telephone with a stranger. It's easier to say yes, this is Mr. Delia Casa." ¶Mario Lanfranchi, 33, is an Italian TV producer, who four years ago set U.S.-born Soprano Anna Moffo, 25, on the road to La Scala by hiring her for a highly successful TV production of Madame Butterfly. Soon afterward, when he married Moffo, Lanfranchi took over the handling of her career. His services include the design of Moffo's shoes, clothes and 100 hats. "Without him," says...
...break in 1956 when she won the title role in an Italian TV production of Butterfly. Overnight Italy claimed her. "A voice of the sweetness and brilliance of our heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic. Voted one of Italy's ten most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust...
Uneasy Virtue. Now married to Italian Director-Producer Mario Lanfranchi (who originally signed her for Butterfly), Diva Moffo lives in an apartment in Milan, collects jazz records as an antidote to a steady opera diet. With her husband as lyricist, she writes pop songs, one of which, Citta, became an instant hit when she sang it on Italian TV ("Always, my city Your aroma is like a garden without flowers Like a tear...