Wednesday 27 June 2012

Ethereal



Time for a bit of culture (with a capital "K") here at Dolores Delargo Towers, for a change!

Today is the 90th anniversary of the birth of the very lovely and photogenic operatic diva Miss Anna Moffo, a singer so popular she even had her own TV show on Italian television in the 1960s (which succeeded, unusually for Italian TV, in never featuring Raffaella or Mina, or any cheesy dancers).

Aside from television, Miss Moffo was a truly lauded diva in the classical world, performing at The Metropolitan Opera of New York for seventeen seasons and starring at major opera houses around the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She died in 2004.

Here the great lady arrives, typically glamorous, to sing "Meine Lippen, die küssen so heiß" ("My lips kiss with such fire") from Giuditta by Franz Lehár [2019 UPDATE: Gone from the interwebs. Here she is instead, with something equally as sparkly]:


How life should be...

Read my previous tribute to La Moffo

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