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Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an Italian American operatic soprano particularly associated with lyric-coloratura roles in Italian and French operas, she was admired as much for her vocal gifts as her great beauty and affecting stage presence.

Life and Career

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Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, to Italian parents, she first studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Eufemia Giannini-Gregory, and later at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with Mercedes Llopart and Luigi Ricci.

Anna was born in in Wayne, Pennsylvania, to Italian parents Nicolas and Regina Moffo.

Anna Moffo () Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Moffo was an Italian-American lyric-coloratura soprano admired for her warm.

Anna Moffo (June 27, – March 9, ) was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress.

Born in Wayne Pennsylvania, on June 27, , and, following graduation at Radnor High School, she studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music and in.

Anna Moffo (June 27, -- March 9, ) was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her.

She made her operatic debut in Spoleto, Italy, in 1955, as Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Shortly after, she appeared in a television production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which made her an overnight sensation throughout Italy.

She quickly appeared in other television productions (Falstaff, La sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, La figlia del reggimento, La serva padrona) and was invited to sing at mos