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]:

Anna Moffo - Sul fil d'un soffio etesio (from Falstaff by Verdi)

How life should be...

Read my previous tribute to La Moffo

Glittering diva

On this scorching hot Sunday, I thought I'd cool things down a bit and enter a world occasionally touched upon here at Dolores Delargo Towers - the world of culture (with a capital "K").

On this date 78 years ago the late, sadly lamented and truly beautiful opera diva Anna Moffo was born. Described by critics as "one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation", Miss Moffo never quite reached the levels of fame and adulation reserved for Maria Callas, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf or Joan Sutherland, yet hers was a beautiful voice, and one to be celebrated.

And she wore glittering frocks, jewels and evening gloves with aplomb! Enjoy...

Anna Moffo - Sempre Libera from La Traviata (Verdi)

Anna Moffo - Obéissons quand leurs voix appelle from Manon (Massenet)

Anna Moffo biography article in Opera News