Anna Moffo - A Portrait of Manon / Great Love Duets
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT21420
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 30th June 2008
Contents
Works
MassenetManon - excerpts
Puccini
Manon Lescaut - excerpts
Verdi
La traviata - excerpt
Puccini
Madama Butterfly - excerpts
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor - excerpts
Puccini
La boheme - excerpt
Artists
Anna MoffoRobert Kerns
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Alberta Alberti
Maria Casula
Anna Di Stasio
Flaviano Labo
Manlio Rocchi
Mario Rinaudo
Enzo Titta
Richard Tucker
Cesare Valletti
Rosalind Elias
Carlo Bergonzi
Rca Italiana Opera Chorus And Orchestra
Orchestra Del Teatro Dell’opera Di Roma
Coro E Orchestra Del Teatro Dell’opera Di Roma
Conductors
Rene LeibowitzGeorges Pretre
Fernando Previtali
Erich Leinsdorf
Works
MassenetManon - excerpts
Puccini
Manon Lescaut - excerpts
Verdi
La traviata - excerpt
Puccini
Madama Butterfly - excerpts
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor - excerpts
Puccini
La boheme - excerpt
Artists
Anna MoffoRobert Kerns
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Alberta Alberti
Maria Casula
Anna Di Stasio
Flaviano Labo
Manlio Rocchi
Mario Rinaudo
Enzo Titta
Richard Tucker
Cesare Valletti
Rosalind Elias
Carlo Bergonzi
Rca Italiana Opera Chorus And Orchestra
Orchestra Del Teatro Dell’opera Di Roma
Coro E Orchestra Del Teatro Dell’opera Di Roma
Conductors
Rene LeibowitzGeorges Pretre
Fernando Previtali
Erich Leinsdorf
About
On 14 November 1959 Moffo appeared for the first time at the Metropolitan as Violetta, a role she sang 80 times with the company. Her success was immediate and she appeared regularly in both the old and new houses throughout the 1960s and early 1970s in 18 major roles, including Pamina, Norina, Gilda, Luisa Miller, the four heroines of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Juliette, Gounod’s Marguerite, Massenet’s Manon, Mélisande, Nedda, Adina, Liù and Lucia di Lammermoor. To many opera-lovers in the USA, she was quite simply the most beautiful diva of her era. She was certainly one of the most talented, possessing an appealing stage presence, a lyric soprano voice of full, radiant tone and an impeccable coloratura technique, which she used with excellent musical taste.
After some 130 Met appearances in New York and a further 70 with the company on tour, her last opera performances in the house at Lincoln Center were in March 1976 as Violetta. She returned to the Met on 22 October 1983 to sing a duet with Robert Merrill in themCentennial Gala, which was televised world-wide.
Extract from the booklet note © Tony Locantro, 2000
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