Moffo biography
Moffo biography
Anna Moffo - Wikipedia.
Moffo, Anna (1932—)
American soprano. Born on June 27, 1932, in Wayne, Pennsylvania; daughter of Nicolas Moffo (a shoemaker) and Regina (Cinti) Moffo; graduated (as valedictorian) from Radnor High School, in Wayne, Pennsylvania; studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Giannini-Gregory and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, Italy, with Luigi Ricci and Mercedes Llopart; married Mario Lanfranchi (a film director and later her manager), on December 8, 1957 (divorced 1972); married Robert Sarnoff (former RCA chair), in 1974 (died 1997); no children.
An American-born soprano of international renown, Anna Moffo was also one of the first opera stars to be acclaimed for her looks as well as her singing.
Following her Metropolitan Opera debut in November 1959, Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times called her "one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the stage of an opera house."
Although her talent blossomed at an early age, Moffo