Her pitch is so satisfying - and the voice just delicious.

Her voice is so free. I really can appreciate that because you can understand every word she’s singing since it’s not obscured by a wobble or tongue tension. It’s so beautiful.

Fantastica e bellissima! La sua voce è di una purezza unica!

For lyric coloratura Anna had a little more weight to her voice than the normal lyric coloratura would. That allowed her repertoire to be a lot more varied. She has perfect coloratura technique to boot. Her voice was quite simply warm and lovely which adds to the incredibly sad dimension to Lucia’s character.

@jimnelson9754

Жыл бұрын

She. Was better than any singer today.

@artdanks4846

5 ай бұрын

I agree. To me, her voice was quite similar to Edda Moser, except more of a Lyric Coloratura, as opposed to Moser's Dramatic Coloratura.

Double WOW!! I had forgotten what a glorious voice Anna Moffo had! Brava Diva!

Nothing to say. Just perfect. Perfect technique, perfectly beautiful voice, perfect coloratura.

Anna Moffo tenía una de las voces de soprano más hermosas que ha existido y la usaba con extraordinaria habilidad. Es y será siempre una de mis grandes favoritas.

Absolutely glorious voice...and a beautiful singer as an added bonus

Split the difference between La Divina and La Stupenda and you have La Bellissima. Ravishing. 💖🎶💖👏💖👏💖🎶💖

I don't know if she is the best Lucia but she is definitely my favorite - there is something so romantic about her voice and the way she sings - it touches the heart.

I saw her in Covent Garden what a lovely evening in the 60's.

Majestic bel canto 🌞. Miss Moffo 💟sings so magnificently. 🌹 🌟 🌷

Bella Voz, centro redondo y dorado y sobreagudos brillantes ¡Magnífíca!👏👏👏👌❤👍

My God... This is the most beautiful thing EVER.

There's a thing that make me adore Anna Moffo very much: every time I listen to her, I'm more than impressed, I'm inspired.

On y revient toujours; Anna belle de corps et de voix mais plus encore ici juste de ton, dramatiquement parfaite, tour à tour inquiète ou enjouée.On aura entendu colorature plus déliée,suraigu moins strident mais rarement une telle mise au service de la musique. Anna for ever!

Im Anna Moffo fan.. Anna is the best of the world all times

I think Ann's incredible voice would have lasted years longer if she had avoided the E's and F's completely, and satisfied herself with occasion excursions above the C. Her high Bb, B natural and C's were so ethereally beautiful, and exciting, she didn't need to venture far beyond them to thrill an audience.

@jkgou1

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for detail analysis for such a beautiful well controlled and dramatic voice

I have read most of the comments comparing Moffo to others. If we all liked the same person there would be a lot of unemployed singers and empty opera houses.

@alberto7694

3 жыл бұрын

As an Italian, I say to you, "I hate this constant comparison of people. " That sang better than that etc, on a human level it's destroying this thing

@melparker9337

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you. Some singers are better than others but if I don't like what I hear I listen to something else. Some singers also suit some roles better than others, that doesn't make the others bad singers.

Moffo was one of the last of a breed. Her warm, beautiful voice was no longer the "Style" and was so misunderstood. She was such a great singer...beautiful...and with a technique that ANYONE would have been jealous of. And yet, she flashed across the opera world and was gone so fast. She burned out like a little matchstick..but what a flame she had!

@geoden

10 жыл бұрын

A good summary and very well put!

@krist-yonnarain7786

9 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean "high sopranos" can only sing Eb's and most sopranos today have dark and heavy timbres.

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

Supposedly she partied her way out of a voice.

@JustIn-xm1vp

3 жыл бұрын

Well said. Some of her early recordings are untouchable.

@danarzechula3769

2 жыл бұрын

@@jondavwal13 actually her manager husband worked her out of her voice. 12 major projects in less than a year will end your voice. She was never known as a "partier" quit casting aspersions on your betters

It's quite possible that the most beautiful ornamentation I have ever heard is after her second "parmi che a lui d'acanto". Grazie Signora Moffo!

It is really too bad that dear Anna is gone from us, and cannot read some of these great comments! YES! There is only ONE MOFFO! She really did have it all for an all too short time, but some of us were fortunate to have seen and heard her in person, and I say now that she had such presence onstage one felt she was singing just for you!!! oh BRAVA dear ANNA! We are still loving and enjoying you!!! Thanks!

@wishfullthinkn6837

5 жыл бұрын

Kathleen Hazeldine: We like seamless...one voice from low to high...not three different voices that "jump" from one to the other like another to be unnamed, but lionized singer of the past. The naysayers like to question the taste, the style, the type of ornamentation...I never find fault in any of that...of course, I am not a musicologist...but I have listened extensively to the greatest singers of all time....including Anna Moffo...of course!

Io ho sentito la mia prima Lucia cantata da Anna Moffo, e mi è sembrata subito bellissima. Tutti i gorgheggi e la voce calda ma anche limpida e cristallina mi hanno incantata.

When I hear her sing, the word that comes to my mind is "natural." At her best, she sounded like she was merely breathing, with that warm, sadness-tinged sound coming out effortlessly. Her voice also had a natural agility, and she could sing florid passages legato, and she never had to resort to the aspirated, machine gun coloratura we hear today. She was also a fluent Italian speaker, and she always gave the feeling that she knew exactly what she was saying, and her diction was always clear. Sutherland had the more spectacular voice, but she always sounded like she learned the words phonetically, and she never gave the impression that she knew what the words meant, and often one couldn't tell what language she was singing in. Earlier in her career, Moffo didn't have a good trill, but she soon developed a good, dependable trill. Here, the trills are still sketchy. She she was also so spectacularly beautiful to top it all!

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

I am fluent in Italian (I grew up in Milan) and I can't understand one word of what Moffo is saying. As bad as Sutherland's diction is I can get most of the words. You just have to realize she says aw instead of ah to round the sound. And Sutherland speaks Italian quite well. But as I'm listening to this again (and I know all the words) not one, is clear. Con fuoco may as well be cum funo and Notte is noche. That's just two examples that came up while I was typing. Oh, now il ciel per me was el cel pamuh.

@fourstrings48

5 жыл бұрын

I have lived in Milan for the past thirty-eight years, having arrived here already fluent in Italian. While I am quite willing to grant that Anna Moffo's sung Italian is not always a model of clear pronunciation, it's by no means quite so incomprehensible as Jonathan Wallach claims. And then, she had such a lovely voice and stage presence, and a highly personal warmth to her musicality.... While she was never one of my idols, I do have fond memories of several of her performances at the Met back in the Sixties and early Seventies.

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

David Steven Tabbat my post was more in defense of Sutherland. Moffo sings like someone who is fluent. That’s actually part of the problem. But she’s fine. She just ain’t Sutherland. Nobody is.

@fourstrings48

5 жыл бұрын

I take Jonathanr Wallach's point, with absolutely no defensiveness or hard feelings at all. But I do feel impelled to observe that Sutherland's sung diction was not always a model of intelligibility.

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

@@fourstrings48 That is absolutely true. But she did speak Italian (I know this for a fact). She didn't enunciate in English any better. LOL. I honestly don't care what Sutherland is saying, although as I said before, I can understand her quite well.

I adore this cavatina. I love Ms. Moffo . Lovely bell canto. This aria is very poetic.😍💚🤩

A wonderful opera singer 👏 !

Eine grandiose Interpretation von Lucia´s erster Arie und Cabaletta-Bravissima Anna Moffo- die High- notes sind sensationell-Danke latraviata 1853 für das außergewöhnliche Video--

It is hard to believe that so much talent and beautiful voice has been gone for sometime.

Very Good .

Wonderful. ANNA was my very first Violetta at the Met in 1961. I would like you to post the mad scene. Thank you for this.

Beautiful! Both the rendition and the recording are great. The spine tingling coloratura makes you want to hear more and more, Moffo lives!...

Anna Moffo kuuluu ilman muuta huippusopraanoihin. Kaikki musiikin ystävät kuuntelemaan tätäkin vertaansa vailla olevaa esitystä.

magnifique...quelle voix ..

Umbelievable...

Wonderful technique and a sublime and sensuous voice. I heard her in the 1970s in Romeo et Juliette at the Met as well as Nedda in Pagliacci. Sadly, she was well beyond her prime and had great difficulty projecting. But thank God for her recordings!

LOVE Madame Moffo, thank you for posting!

You know....I'm a die hard Joan Sutherland fan.....but I have to admit that this was really really really good

@toomanybytes

6 жыл бұрын

In other words...

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

This is a good performance but go and listen to the 1960 Sutherland at Proms and it sounds like one of Moffo's speakers is missing. But that happens when you listen to peak Sutherland and listen to anybody else afterwards.

@MrStpendouslvforjo

5 жыл бұрын

@@jondavwal13 You are right. And not just "peak" Sutherland... La Stupenda was BEYOND anyone.😊

@MrStpendouslvforjo

5 жыл бұрын

@@toomanybytes 😊

Divina

bravo! the execution is in my opinion flawless.

She reminds me of Maria Callas but without the drama of emotion and over acting. Moffo’s voice is far more clear and on pitch, I wonder why she wasn’t seen for this, and equally remembered. She’s also fun to listen to. We aren’t concerned about her off stage hardships.

Amo a la Moffo, amo su LUCIA. Su aterciopelada voz marcha a la par de la belleza física que la acompañó en sus mejores años de carrera. Su timbre es único. Prefiero una LUCIA de la Moffo que una LUCIA de la Sutherland. ¡Moffo es hechizante!

yes - lol - not only the 'sharp pointed coloratura', but the coloratura on top of the substantial, beautiful and the most capable, 'core' voice

Grandioso! Sublime! Mi chiedo sempre il perché le interpretazioni dei cantanti odierni non mi riescono a convincere così tanto come queste delle grandi voci del passato...voci belle c'è ne sono anche oggi...eppure di continuo cado sempre su registrazioni del passato....mi toccano di più....forse anche ad altri appassionati succede questo fenomeno...forse qualcuno può darmi una risposta.

@giovanniarioli3021

7 жыл бұрын

Romea Romeo questa è una voce purissima, meravigliosa, brava Anna

@giovanniarioli3021

7 жыл бұрын

Romea Romeo perché questa signora è fra le grandisssime di sempre. Semplice, anche se non è proprio la sua parte, se proprio si vuole spaccare il capello. ma bravissima e bellissima

!Bravo, bravo¡

Utterly lovely. Beautiful technique, The aria is so effortlessly sung, despite the coloratura demands and the fioritura. I agree with ricciarello62 that her Lucia (judging from this aria), surpasses that of Sutherland, much as I admire the latter.

@jondavwal13

5 жыл бұрын

Um no . It's good, but not that good. Her voice might have been 10% the size of Sutherland's.

@pasqualeperrone1560

5 жыл бұрын

I think it’s more respectful to leave comments about Moffo’s fine singing instead of making comparisons to whom you find to be a “better” Lucia.

@artistsf1

4 жыл бұрын

@@pasqualeperrone1560 Gawd, yes, please.

@nunovski2002

Жыл бұрын

@@jondavwal13 and that's precisely why I DON'T like Sutherland.

Flawless! After listening to Moffo, I simply have no desire to hear another soprano attempt this music.

@terrycloth6380

6 жыл бұрын

lundilar so true

@flossie5432

5 жыл бұрын

Even as a highly critical ten year old in 1964,who thought there was nobody to beat Callas,,Anna Moffo was the one to change my mind.For years,hers was the voice by which all others were measured.It was glorious.

@diefledermichael801

5 жыл бұрын

Much agreed, flossie. Moffo's vocal prime was, alas, cut short, but, when healthy, hers was clearly the finest operatic lyric soprano voice of her era and since. Plus her general musicianship and interpretive powers were of a very high order!

@mireilleassena

5 жыл бұрын

Try and listen to Lisette Oropesa. I bet you won't regret it

@sw5114

Жыл бұрын

@@mireilleassena Oropessa has a beautiful voice, impeccable musicality, and uses her voice with care and intelligence. Anna Moffo had an incandescence that was on a different level and a beauty which no one could dispute. She thrilled you with every ounce of her artistry. That combination is most likely not repeatable in this age.

To say I'm in love with her voice only scratches the surface of my listening experience, although this is not my favorite recording of hers. I tend to hide from soprano generally, preferring the "warmer" voices of the mezzo, but Moffo I can listen to anytime/anywhere. Is there, are there quality bios of her? I believe her later life was not all one might have wished....Had she become a "trophy wife", and any truth to notion that a "nose job" altered her vocal production, or were her vocal problems just a result of bad management of roles and schedule. I've read that she over-sang...giving 4 and 5 performances a week for years. Anyway, a non-fluff bio I'd find interesting.

Як на мене, одна з 2-х найпрекрасніших сопран усіх часів і народів! 😍

Bravaaaaa

AnnaMoffo QUINN forever and only one

meravigliosa grandissima cantante 35 pollici verso 35 cornuti

Awesome!

so sweet

I agree george, Anna competes with Sutherland on this one.

The best Lucia ever.

La Bellissima

@toninogalie2794

4 жыл бұрын

...la bravissima

@eugeniogentili1048

3 жыл бұрын

Belle erano anche la Virginia Zeani e Leyla Gencer.

This song is definitely the undisputed skill Moffo. Netrebko and better than any other. taf289

это феноменально !

she reigns supreme with the stars nay above the other stars !

brava..

preciosa

Such a gorgeous voice! Moffo sang La Fille du Regiment in Pittsburgh when I was in the opera chorus. A bit past her prime but still beautiful in appearance and vocally!

Extraordinary!

3:06 Heating My Heart..!

THIS IS AMAZING. I PREFER THIS VERSION THEN THAT OF SUTHERLAND.

❤

너무 아름답다.😍

OMG........

Amen

Assolutamente perfetta!!!!!!lirico di coloratura ma con ombreggiature naturali che rendevano questo canto a volte un po' stucchevole molto interessante e un po più spinto verso una tensione drammatica....avrei gradito qualche variazione in meno .....comunque magnifica se la gioca a la pari con le più grandi....comprese Sutherland e Callas 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@sergiovanelli7420

3 жыл бұрын

Per altro il.mio primo lp era della Moffo....con un panorama di arie assolutamente magnifico ......la mia passione per la lirica e nata in televisione..con la Traviata eccezionale della Carteri...e le opere successive cantate dalla Moffo....

Aveva attuato qualche incursione nel cinema. .

i have, for over 2 years by now, 'the coloratura bit' after the second "...per me..." (the "steps") as a ring-tone on my mobile - people are either shocked or amazed when my phone rings... - anybody interested? :)

Голос лучший среди сопрано ...

Interessante

Bravissima, troppo poco valutata in Italia, peccato aveva una estensione vocale incredibile

@MrAndredekock do you know/understand the basics of the belcanto period ? that ornaments and embellishments were expected to be added? many listeners have gotten so used to the ornaments "normally used" that they actually believe the composer wrote them --- take the time to find the Leibling of Ricci books of ornaments ---- these books actually show the "regular/normal" embelishments that have been handed down for 150 years

Molto sexy nel film erotico esistenziale una storia di amore con il bellissimo Gianni Macchia. .di una avvenenza incredibile il film scandalo del 1969 di Michele Lupo. Ve lo consiglio. .

All wonderful singing is well, wonderful! I think in the coloratura role of Elvira in "I Puritani" Gruberova, Live from the Met 1991, is just crazy good. I was at that performance, I don't think I've ever been in the theater for anything more exciting in terms of the tightwire, she gave it all. Some criticize her for singing notes that aren't there, to which I say I couldn't imagine Bellini not loving it - cadenzas are supposed to be a vehicle for a virtuoso embellishment, I thought that was the point of bel canto. Callas in her 1952 live recording is also something - the sweetness in her youthful voice is something to behold.

For me, Mdm. Moffo was the real Primadonna Assoluta (not Callas). Moffo was one of the most beautifull sopranos, and her timbre was unique, in the deep dark and soft in the high clear and light. sad she was gon 1996(I belive). Now she is in heaven, side on side with the other great voices before her.

@paulfranks6266

4 жыл бұрын

She died in 2006.

@ROBERTRIVERification

4 жыл бұрын

You betchum Red Ryder signed Little Beaver

before my rating - this was rated as 4 1/2 .. i have a real difficulties conceptualizing why would anybody rate this, or some other Moffo's recordings, with less than prefect ... ... it's childish to rate something without a proper listening, and the lower rating will not improve, or credit as right, one's lack of hearing

Dear Latraviata1853 -- Can you post the Verrano a Te from the First Act? Please!?!

Who’s the mezzo?

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4:04

She is a great singer, but Í feel this performance out of melodic line...I much prefer CALLAS in this masterpiece because of the play with the "forti"and "pianissimi"and the tasteful legato through the acrobatic coloratura

Not the best, but still great.

pretty much my thoughts exactly.

People

I love that phrase..."life after Callas". Do you mind if a borrow it? ;) And I think this is a spectacular version, one of my favorites for sure. But, I don't think even Moffo can beat Sutherland in Lucia....

Why listen to anyone else?

This is a real tragedy on its own ..... the waste of what was a magnificent voice! The one criticism I have always had of Moffo is that her coloratura passages are far too overdone and one waits for the Moffoism to come to end as she finally gets back to either Donizetti or Bellini. But she had everything going for her and when she auditioned for a bursary in her youth the adjudicators insisted that all the candidates sing from behind a screen unseen because of Moffo's absolute beauty.

Beautiful voice, very satisfying pitch...not so sure about her trill though: sometimes you can hear two notes...sometimes she just increase the intensity of the vibrato, but that's not really a trill. Also I didn't like the variation at the end...

Very pleasant, she has such a good technique, although I think she lacks the legato of Callas and Lucia is to heavy for her.

Great voice but a terrible musician. So common in Opera.

@pasqualeperrone1560

6 жыл бұрын

I’d recommend you listen to her other recordings of arias to get a sense of her musicianship.

@davidpowers1108

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you are not aware that Miss Moffo was quite a talented pianist and also wrote music as well. She also proved how good a musician she was when she conducted a Master Class at the Abraham Goodman House in New York City in 1987 which I attended every night that week.

@DavidN369

5 жыл бұрын

She was an incredible musician.

I mean...not really. She's a superb soprano, the voice and its agility and ring are astonishing; but those cadenzas are pretty horrid, let's be real. The ornaments, the fermate...just really bizarre and tasteless.