Di grande bellezza estetica... e vocalmente prodigiosa... sicura nell'affrontare gli spartiti più impervi... perché la sua voce le permetteva di spaziare nel più vasto repertorio operistico da... Traviata a Rigoletto.... Trovatore... Puritani ed oltre....Grande... ANNA MOFFO.🙏
I just cant help myself from commenting on my favorite of all time ,ANNA MOFFO! I wonder whether listeners realize that ANNA was quite an intellectual...she had a marvelous brain and actually STUDIED a lot...studied her music, the piano, the viola and I believe five languages. Her interview in GERMAN shows that high intelligence as well as her marvelous quality of warmth of character. I read she was a great cook too! YES! She had it all! BRAVISSSSSSIMAAAAA, ANNA!
Kathleen Hazeldine: No, she didn’t have it all. She had technical problems and at one point early in the ‘70’s on a radio broadcast from the MET, there was an issue of stopping the performance because it was so poor. Yes, she was beautiful in voice and body and s good musician but whatever happened so that career ended when it should have continued? She was about the same age as Callas when both careers ended and they both bear responsibility. It was not just a case of ‘s**t happens.’
She had 12 good years. That’s all anyone could be grateful for. Remember Glen Gould?….same thing. Genius is a foe of insanity, even a retardation……in a good way of course. This dame was one of a kind….just like that Russian dude who died in his 50’s. He was only just conceived when this dame was in her singing prime. Now that would’ve been a sight to behold. Both of them singing together. …both in Heaven now. All three were freaks.
Il suo canto sembra venga giù dal cielo, delicatezza, bellezza dei suoni, naturalezza, e quando ci vuole, con intensità arriva oltre ogni limite di tessitura. Un prodigio che il buon Dio ci ha mandato. Fortunati gli Angeli che ti hanno li con loro!!!!!!!! 🌹🙏
Bellissima...moderna, spudoratamente generosa...voce calibratissima e precisa in ogni Gamma della sua arte belcantista.Grande presenza scenica di una musicista completa .Chapeau Anna!!!
What a stunning she was...love her technique. She takes the right time to do what ever she is singing. No rush...that is the beauty of this wonderful prima donna. Thank you for sharig this video clip.One of a kind! she really is one of the greatest!! sHe has it all: talent,beauty, voice, and a wonderful actress! Born to sing anything.
She was at your time beside maria callas the greatest primadonna.Your beauty and fantastic theatrepresens was legendary -She singing at the end from the cabaletta a ES in alto-Bravissima anna moffo-Thank´s very much for the wonderful video--
In my opinion, bel canto singing doesn't get better than this; technically, stylistically, interpretively, and emotionally. Anna Moffo was a great musician.
Javier Lopez Aranguena: By far you must never the names or voices of Maria Callas and JOAN SUTHERLAND who are the better of the best and still unrivaled after all these years as today in 2022. You are forgiven for never heard them let alone heard of them. 😊
Já não sei precisar, em que altura da minha vida, me cruzei com ela. Sei sim, que era obrigatório ouvi-la. Hoje, passados alguns anos, deu-se o reencontro e foi fabuloso. Uma voz extraordinária!
Qui la voce sua soave Mi chiamava e poi sparì. Qui giurava esser fedele, Qui il giurava, qui il giurava E poi crudele E poi crudele mi fuggì! Ah! mai più qui assorti insieme Ah! mai più qui assorti insieme Nella gioia dei sospir. Ah! rendetemi la speme, O lasciatemi Lasciatemi morir! Ah! rendetemi la speme O lasciate, lasciatemi morir
La più bella di tutte quante La più brava per Bellini e Donizetti ovvero il bel canto dove la voce unita alla dolcezza ed alla bravura è piacevole all’udito aldilà della storia più o meno tragica Anna moffo in “io non credeva mirarti “ ed in questo pezzo è superiore ai mostri sacri Callas e Sutherland Sorry
I discovered Anna Moffo some 20 years ago when I purchased my first complete opera recording Rigoletto (RCA,1963) and it was love at first hearing - and first sight when I later discovered how she looked like - one can discuss about the virtues of this singer or that singer endlessly - it is highly subjective - but all I can say is none touches me the way Anna does.
wondering why near perfect singers like her can be so underrated, may be becuase we love the craziness of Maria, and the defiant attitude of Sutherland , do we really love that kind of thing? yes we do, thats the only explanation of why Maria , Sutherland and Caballe are at the top of the food chain in the opera world and singers like moffo tomova sintow , or edda mosser are in a second page
Yue Shogo, "pages" are only in one's head (like on twitter or google search) - there is nothing "second page" or about Moffo (none less then Sutherland or Popp, or Gundula, or any other great singer), Sony's marketing, helped well beforehand with media/public driven life for decades, have helped one singer to become a generic word (her surname) for a soprano... that's nothing to do with what one hears... - incidentally, Moffo was a megastar at her time, far from "underrated", shame she worked to hard and sung too much...
Une merveilleuse chanteuse à la carrière trop courte. Heureusement sa discographie abonde en bijoux de toutes sortes contrairement à d'autres chanteuses adulées ayant laissé au disque des témoignages bien moins aboutis (suivez mon regard).
Wow! I had forgotten how beautifully she could sing. And she seemed to be just as much at home in Bel Canto as in late 19th century lyric roles. A real eye-opener. Those were the days when we could choose between Maria, Joan, Anna, or Montserrat. What do we have these days to choose from?
Almost as good as Sutherland and Callas. The descending scales are lovely and so is the Eb6. She is an underrated soprano. Had Sutherland not come into the scene, she may have been the Lucia of her time.
sutherland had also the help of her husband , because when your husband is mostly your manager and musical director he can accommodates everything to make Sutherland shine above at all ,, the tempos , the silences .. so her high notes can be very perceptible and fully evident .. well she has the edge .. , she obviously had one of the most powerful coloratura voices to ever walk on earth but that little help can make the difference between sutherland and moffo
I think Sutherland really shone in fast music. In slow music, her struggles with singing legato often degenerated into "mooning and mooching," and her her poor diction gave the impression that she didn't even know what she was saying. But in the right repertoire she was amazing.
I and many others who have researched the career and listened to virtually all the recordings of Anna Moffo have come to the thoroughly considered opinion that Moffo was not almost as good as Sutherland and Callas - she was, overall, far better! And there has not been a lyric operatic soprano to match her since!
Could bel canto singing be any more 'bel', stylish, and heartfelt than this? Anna Moffo's 1960 recital recording with Colin Davis is musically and vocally legendary.
Beautiful! And a clear reference back from Mad Margaret from Ruddigore (and thanks to Libby Moyer of Savoynet for pointing this out). It's obvious once you hear it! Lovely rendition too.
15 лет назад+1
Well, besides of course the beauty and perfection of the rest, THAT IS some attack of a high E flat...WOW!!!!!!
I have never been to much of a Callas fan. I respect her, and she had a good voice. What made Callas amazing was her acting...her stage presence. She never quite had the fluidity that Moffo had, and she had to work harder for her higher registers due to the weight loss that she experienced and the stress she undertook. I think Callas did great at this aria, but I personally believe that Moffo is the better of the two. But, here is to two great Soprano's.
To choose between one or another opera singing is a matter of taste. If you like opera, I invite you to hear one of the most beautiful arias by Callas - early 50's - Suicidio, La Gioconda. The lower notes are unbelievable. By the way, I like Moffo very much. They are totally different.
A pleurer de beauté ! Et maintenent on est obligé de faire avec ce qu'on trouve, c'est à dire du banal, du timbre banal, du style banal, je vous le dis, à pleurer.
si Es mejor intérprete vocal Le pasa como a Domingo que sin cantar tan bien como Pavarotti pone más pasión Todo no se puede tener A mi las dos me gustan
i appreciate your intention to "mediate" here - but it's not so difficult - in fact if one just listens [blindfolded if needed :)] it is not difficult at all - in this aria (as in may other ones, but that is different issue) Moffo is pleasing to the ear, also every word is pronounced and felt as such (by its meaning, in Italian, whilst the "C singer" [sorry don't want to mention that singers name out of her videos] is rather unpleasant to listen to, words happening only "accidentally" playing only a small role in that - if you don't believe me ... :)
Yeah, I just listened to the whole album last month and absolutely adored it. Moffo's voice was at its absolute freshest. I agree that the F6 in Una voce poco fa was over the top but I loved the mad scene in Lucia and the sleepwalking scene in La Sonnambula.
Martín Carvajal, Did you mean Pamina instead of Fiordiligi? Because there's no role called Fiordiligi in Die Zauberflote. There's a recording of her as Pamina in the 1973 MET broadcast you're referring too. You can find it on dailymotion.com--if you're willing to tolerate all those stupid unremovable commercial interruptions.
www.dailyvides.com/watch-video/x2avqg1/mozart-die-zauberfl-te-new-york-december-15-1973/ Here's the 1973 Met broadcast of Die Zauberflote in case you haven't heard it yet. These clips give you a good idea of Moffo's Pamina. 37:33-40:30 Pamina/Pappageno Duet Act One 1:29:21-1:34:16 Pamina's Aria Act Two 1:38:57-1:42:22 Pamina/Tamina/Saratro Trio Act Two 1:58:59-2:06:12 Pamina/Tamino Duet Act Two. She sounds really good here, rich, warm and creamy from top to bottom. Luigi Alva, Donald Gramm and Jerome Hines have nice attractive voices as well and are very involved in the characterizations.
I agree 500 % Madame. Moffo 👑 was a great Opera singer & very underrated. Today she would of been a great international Prima Donna. Better than Fleming , Nebtrebko etc. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
Anna tries to achieve pathos by taking short breaths. The pathos is not in the voice itself. There is nothing really sad about her timbre. Elvira is pleading--"Give me hope or give me death"--but Anna is not. She is trying to sing beautifully (which she does). I think some of the authors commenting here do not understand Italian or the situation in the opera, or both.
If you look for tears in the voice, you might consider listening to Claudia Muzio. Moffo has a shiny, bright, thus joyful sounding natural voice, but incredibly beautiful timbre.
I agree with you: Muzio's voice itself allowed her to express vulnerability and pain. On another matter: even though the sound quality is poor, I love her live "Tosca" broadcast from San Francisco Opera in 1932, on the opening night of the War Memorial Opera House. Thrilling to have this document!
Ooo, there you strike a nerve with me! I have been listening soo many times to that recording. I am totaly in love with the vulnerability expressed there,. And I appreciate Dino Borgioli's Cavaradossi too.
It's a crying shame that because Callas is so famous many opera neophytes first hear her sing arias and don't like them because of her awful shrieking voice, thus they are turned off from opera in general. Beautiful voices like Moffo's go unappreciated. (Of course Roberta Peters is my favorite, but Moffo is excellent in her short prime. I feel her beauty actually distracted people from her singing, and she fell back on her sex appeal.)
“Shrieking” Callas! “Fell back in her sex appeal.” Such jealousy and self-important carping. I’m so glad many more people don’t agree with your mean-spirited, arrogant dismissal of Calls and Moffo two of the greats, far more acclaimed than Peters. Why not leave thoughtful and positive remarks instead of arrogant and snide comments?
CALLAS, THE SCATOLOGICAL SOPRANO (continued) Said Serafin, "Opera is a sacred art, So try not to sound, dear, like you're ripping a fart, I love you, but you lack any bel canto skill -- Your demented yodeling is so not a trill."
Di grande bellezza estetica... e vocalmente prodigiosa... sicura nell'affrontare gli spartiti più impervi... perché la sua voce le permetteva di spaziare nel più vasto repertorio operistico da... Traviata a Rigoletto.... Trovatore... Puritani ed oltre....Grande... ANNA MOFFO.🙏
Semplicemente……unica!,,,,
I just cant help myself from commenting on my favorite of all time ,ANNA MOFFO! I wonder whether listeners realize that ANNA was quite an intellectual...she had a marvelous brain and actually STUDIED a lot...studied her music, the piano, the viola and I believe five languages. Her interview in GERMAN shows that high intelligence as well as her marvelous quality of warmth of character. I read she was a great cook too! YES! She had it all! BRAVISSSSSSIMAAAAA, ANNA!
Well put and so true! Brilliant artist and person.
Kathleen Hazeldine: No, she didn’t have it all. She had technical problems and at one point early in the ‘70’s on a radio broadcast from the MET, there was an issue of stopping the performance because it was so poor. Yes, she was beautiful in voice and body and s good musician but whatever happened so that career ended when it should have continued? She was about the same age as Callas when both careers ended and they both bear responsibility. It was not just a case of ‘s**t happens.’
She had 12 good years. That’s all anyone could be grateful for. Remember Glen Gould?….same thing. Genius is a foe of insanity, even a retardation……in a good way of course. This dame was one of a kind….just like that Russian dude who died in his 50’s. He was only just conceived when this dame was in her singing prime. Now that would’ve been a sight to behold. Both of them singing together. …both in Heaven now.
All three were freaks.
Non esistera mai un`altra come Anna Moffo! Era perfetta !
La migliore da tutte! Tecnica, naturalezza , sensibilita e una voce stupenda! Anna Moffo , sei la mia ispirazione e lo sarai per sempre!
In base a cosa dici tecnica ,sai che dovette smettere la carriera proprio per la tecnica .
Direi piuttosto presenza scenica , e di una bellezza rara .
Il suo canto sembra venga giù dal cielo, delicatezza, bellezza dei suoni, naturalezza, e quando ci vuole, con intensità arriva oltre ogni limite di tessitura. Un prodigio che il buon Dio ci ha mandato. Fortunati gli Angeli che ti hanno li con loro!!!!!!!! 🌹🙏
Bellissima...moderna, spudoratamente generosa...voce calibratissima e precisa in ogni Gamma della sua arte belcantista.Grande presenza scenica di una musicista completa .Chapeau Anna!!!
I had almost forgotten the great beauty, clarity, and warmth of Anna Moffo's voice! I had
Several of her vinyl recordings . Brava.
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What a stunning she was...love her technique. She takes the right time to do what ever she is singing. No rush...that is the beauty of this wonderful prima donna. Thank you for sharig this video clip.One of a kind! she really is one of the greatest!! sHe has it all:
talent,beauty, voice, and a wonderful actress! Born to sing anything.
She was at your time beside maria callas the greatest primadonna.Your beauty and fantastic theatrepresens was legendary -She singing at the end from the cabaletta a ES in alto-Bravissima anna moffo-Thank´s very much for the wonderful video--
Браво! Какое счастье, что такие певицы были и оставили столько прекрасных записей и имеем возможность наслаждаться их голосами
а теперь только непотребно и перепятьки нашим потомкам в ''наследство'' свое ЖЛОБСТВО оставили
@@gregoryludkovsky5185to dobrze uuiuygugyuiuyg
Stupenda, sublime. Una voce splendida e adatta al bel canto.
Quelle époque c'était...que de voix magnifiques comme celle là.......
Bravissima
Bravissima. Gives me the chills every time!
In my opinion, bel canto singing doesn't get better than this; technically, stylistically, interpretively, and emotionally. Anna Moffo was a great musician.
I SO AGREE!
Absolutely!
I think the best belcanto singer is Montserrat Caballé.
JOAN SUTHERLAND!!!!!!!
Как же я ЕЁ люблю.....!!!!!!
Absolutely my favourite coloratura soprano (along with Sutherland). Gorgeous.
In first moment coloratura, after with mature age lyric soprano...
By far... the best, unparalleled version! Still unmatched, for many years to come!
What you've said, sir, is still so very true! Many thanks.
Javier Lopez Aranguena: By far you must never the names or voices of Maria Callas and JOAN SUTHERLAND who are the better of the best and still unrivaled after all these years as today in 2022. You are forgiven for never heard them let alone heard of them. 😊
How I wish I could have experienced the magic of Anna Moffo live....
So smooth and enveloping. I love her. I too wish I can sing like this one day !!
Anna Moffo is the very best
Voz tan hermosa, delicada, elegante, excelso!!!
meraviglioso pezzo : Bellini è insuperabile e la MOffo era una delle migliori voci
C' est la perfection !!!.....
every note perfection.
Wow! Such a great performance!
Love her,,,,PERFECT
Já não sei precisar, em que altura da minha vida, me cruzei com ela. Sei sim, que era obrigatório ouvi-la. Hoje, passados alguns anos, deu-se o reencontro e foi fabuloso. Uma voz extraordinária!
La voz mas bella de soprano lrico ligera que escuche en mis años y tengo muchos
BRAVISSIMA . BELLA !!
Es cierto, es exquisita!!!!! Amo el canto de Anna Moffo!!!!! Inolvidable.
Wonderful "Qui la voce" by Anna Moffo. She should have had a bigger, longer wonderful career.
THAT'S SO UNFORTUNATE FOR ALL OF US !
Scott Johnson: Yes she should have, why wasn’t a longer better career? Poor technique, plastic surgery, bad choice of roles??
Words are simply not adequate to describe how this voice affects me. I expect HEAVEN to sound like this!!! ANNA.....YOU ARE SIMPLY THE MOST DIVINE !!
Che dire... un angelo del cielo....!
This is the kind of singing that truly excites.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Madonna Mia!! chi bella voce!!!
Qui la voce sua soave
Mi chiamava e poi sparì.
Qui giurava esser fedele,
Qui il giurava, qui il giurava
E poi crudele
E poi crudele mi fuggì!
Ah! mai più qui assorti insieme
Ah! mai più qui assorti insieme
Nella gioia dei sospir.
Ah! rendetemi la speme,
O lasciatemi
Lasciatemi morir!
Ah! rendetemi la speme
O lasciate, lasciatemi morir
Extraordinaria Magnífica Bella
...magnifica, bella e... brava 😃
La più bella di tutte quante
La più brava per Bellini e Donizetti ovvero il bel canto dove la voce unita alla dolcezza ed alla bravura è piacevole all’udito aldilà della storia più o meno tragica
Anna moffo in “io non credeva mirarti “ ed in questo pezzo è superiore ai mostri sacri Callas e Sutherland
Sorry
Exquisite! Thank you so much for uploading. This is an absolute gem.
El mundo operatico le debe un lugar privilegiado entre las mejores de todos los tiempos
Very good Job
Meraviglia
beautiful
Brividi...
Incridible...
I discovered Anna Moffo some 20 years ago when I purchased my first complete opera recording Rigoletto (RCA,1963) and it was love at first hearing - and first sight when I later discovered how she looked like - one can discuss about the virtues of this singer or that singer endlessly - it is highly subjective - but all I can say is none touches me the way Anna does.
wondering why near perfect singers like her can be so underrated, may be becuase we love the craziness of Maria, and the defiant attitude of Sutherland , do we really love that kind of thing? yes we do, thats the only explanation of why Maria , Sutherland and Caballe are at the top of the food chain in the opera world and singers like moffo tomova sintow , or edda mosser are in a second page
Yue Shogo, "pages" are only in one's head (like on twitter or google search) - there is nothing "second page" or about Moffo (none less then Sutherland or Popp, or Gundula, or any other great singer), Sony's marketing, helped well beforehand with media/public driven life for decades, have helped one singer to become a generic word (her surname) for a soprano... that's nothing to do with what one hears... - incidentally, Moffo was a megastar at her time, far from "underrated", shame she worked to hard and sung too much...
Stella di prima grandezza.
SUPERMAGNIFICA
BRAVA !
Une merveilleuse chanteuse à la carrière trop courte.
Heureusement sa discographie abonde en bijoux de toutes sortes contrairement à d'autres chanteuses adulées ayant laissé au disque des témoignages bien moins aboutis (suivez mon regard).
Wow! I had forgotten how beautifully she could sing. And she seemed to be just as much at home in Bel Canto as in late 19th century lyric roles. A real eye-opener. Those were the days when we could choose between Maria, Joan, Anna, or Montserrat. What do we have these days to choose from?
nothing !!! thats the real answer
ANNA NEPOTREBKO, a most uncultured , vulgar & untrained ''SUPER PRIMADONNA''
Best!
WOW. Captivating!
davvero bello, poi con sto finale insolito che non si sente spesso... ora lo stanno ritirando fuori in molte. una delle migliori in assoluto
GORGEOUS with a Capital "G!"
Very nice!
Almost as good as Sutherland and Callas. The descending scales are lovely and so is the Eb6.
She is an underrated soprano. Had Sutherland not come into the scene, she may have been the Lucia of her time.
diana ventura Sutherland - powerful voice... fabulous technique... but ugly voice timbre.
sutherland had also the help of her husband , because when your husband is mostly your manager and musical director he can accommodates everything to make Sutherland shine above at all ,, the tempos , the silences .. so her high notes can be very perceptible and fully evident .. well she has the edge .. , she obviously had one of the most powerful coloratura voices to ever walk on earth but that little help can make the difference between sutherland and moffo
I think Sutherland really shone in fast music. In slow music, her struggles with singing legato often degenerated into "mooning and mooching," and her her poor diction gave the impression that she didn't even know what she was saying. But in the right repertoire she was amazing.
I and many others who have researched the career and listened to virtually all the recordings of Anna Moffo have come to the thoroughly considered opinion that Moffo was not almost as good as Sutherland and Callas - she was, overall, far better! And there has not been a lyric operatic soprano to match her since!
@@MrLuis85698 C'est le résultat qui compte!!
She is missed....Brava
solo per palati fini Anna fantastica
Could bel canto singing be any more 'bel', stylish, and heartfelt than this? Anna Moffo's 1960 recital recording with Colin Davis is musically and vocally legendary.
Beautiful! And a clear reference back from Mad Margaret from Ruddigore (and thanks to Libby Moyer of Savoynet for pointing this out). It's obvious once you hear it! Lovely rendition too.
Well, besides of course the beauty and perfection of the rest, THAT IS some attack of a high E flat...WOW!!!!!!
@Glenmed ... i just listen this , this is GREAT , and first thing to come my mind......
Glenmed must hear this one ! ;))
😢
I have never been to much of a Callas fan. I respect her, and she had a good voice. What made Callas amazing was her acting...her stage presence. She never quite had the fluidity that Moffo had, and she had to work harder for her higher registers due to the weight loss that she experienced and the stress she undertook. I think Callas did great at this aria, but I personally believe that Moffo is the better of the two. But, here is to two great Soprano's.
To choose between one or another opera singing is a matter of taste. If you like opera, I invite you to hear one of the most beautiful arias by Callas - early 50's - Suicidio, La Gioconda. The lower notes are unbelievable. By the way, I like Moffo very much. They are totally different.
Although I 'am a Callas fan I must say Anna is nearly up there, lacks the fine twists that Callas has but it is very good.
Красуня. Чому таку красуню не "розкрутили" у свій час?.. Голос і краса..
@suncollection .. i think it same... ,here . she had it all !
♡soft and strong
Great
And myyy was she pretty
Mi piace
mostly she had it all
Wow this is as good as callas.
Perfect in every way. Gorgeous voice and unbelievable technique. Only Callas and Sutherland are alongside her.
PLEEEESE, DO NOT PUT THOSE IN SAME CATEGORY WITH ANNA MOFFO . SHE IS BY FAR IN A HIGHER LEAGE
A pleurer de beauté ! Et maintenent on est obligé de faire avec ce qu'on trouve, c'est à dire du banal, du timbre banal, du style banal, je vous le dis, à pleurer.
4:00
Me gusta más que la Callas Tiene el timbre más bello
i think you comment is "mas nonsensical", incidentally, i think the great singer you mention is, in this aria, "mas croaky" and "mas out of tempo"
Okay, it's too slow, but isn't the conductor responsible for that?
si Es mejor intérprete vocal Le pasa como a Domingo que sin cantar tan bien como Pavarotti pone más pasión Todo no se puede tener A mi las dos me gustan
muy de acuerdo, es tan dificl escoger
i appreciate your intention to "mediate" here - but it's not so difficult - in fact if one just listens [blindfolded if needed :)] it is not difficult at all - in this aria (as in may other ones, but that is different issue) Moffo is pleasing to the ear, also every word is pronounced and felt as such (by its meaning, in Italian, whilst the "C singer" [sorry don't want to mention that singers name out of her videos] is rather unpleasant to listen to, words happening only "accidentally" playing only a small role in that - if you don't believe me ... :)
What year is this?
Yeah, I just listened to the whole album last month and absolutely adored it. Moffo's voice was at its absolute freshest. I agree that the F6 in Una voce poco fa was over the top but I loved the mad scene in Lucia and the sleepwalking scene in La Sonnambula.
Also, do you have the German lieder album and if so could you please upload some excerpts?
Martín Carvajal, Did you mean Pamina instead of Fiordiligi? Because there's no role called Fiordiligi in Die Zauberflote. There's a recording of her as Pamina in the 1973 MET broadcast you're referring too. You can find it on dailymotion.com--if you're willing to tolerate all those stupid unremovable commercial interruptions.
www.dailyvides.com/watch-video/x2avqg1/mozart-die-zauberfl-te-new-york-december-15-1973/
Here's the 1973 Met broadcast of Die Zauberflote in case you haven't heard it yet. These clips give you a good idea of Moffo's Pamina.
37:33-40:30 Pamina/Pappageno Duet Act One
1:29:21-1:34:16 Pamina's Aria Act Two
1:38:57-1:42:22 Pamina/Tamina/Saratro Trio Act Two
1:58:59-2:06:12 Pamina/Tamino Duet Act Two.
She sounds really good here, rich, warm and creamy from top to bottom. Luigi Alva, Donald Gramm and Jerome Hines have nice attractive voices as well and are very involved in the characterizations.
@@lukasmiller486 Thank you so much for this Magic Flute. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
Comme animé de l'intérieur, on peut invoquer ici le "chant mouillé de larmes" légitimement prêté à Callas.
Also whoever the dinguses are that put a thumbs down have no soul just saying
I agree 500 % Madame. Moffo 👑 was a great Opera singer & very underrated. Today she would of been a great international Prima Donna. Better than Fleming , Nebtrebko etc. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
What the stupid one was this Artur :( .............. ))))))))))))))))))))
Anna tries to achieve pathos by taking short breaths. The pathos is not in the voice itself. There is nothing really sad about her timbre. Elvira is pleading--"Give me hope or give me death"--but Anna is not. She is trying to sing beautifully (which she does). I think some of the authors commenting here do not understand Italian or the situation in the opera, or both.
If you look for tears in the voice, you might consider listening to Claudia Muzio. Moffo has a shiny, bright, thus joyful sounding natural voice, but incredibly beautiful timbre.
I agree with you: Muzio's voice itself allowed her to express vulnerability and pain. On another matter: even though the sound quality is poor, I love her live "Tosca" broadcast from San Francisco Opera in 1932, on the opening night of the War Memorial Opera House. Thrilling to have this document!
Ooo, there you strike a nerve with me! I have been listening soo many times to that recording. I am totaly in love with the vulnerability expressed there,. And I appreciate Dino Borgioli's Cavaradossi too.
HAHA - "One-Vowel". Oh how I would love to bitch at you and say it's nasty, but of course, it's true, bless her heart
A lovely voice but emotionally empty; utterly lacking in pathos with no sense of Elvira's plight, whatsoever. I was unmoved.
It's a crying shame that because Callas is so famous many opera neophytes first hear her sing arias and don't like them because of her awful shrieking voice, thus they are turned off from opera in general. Beautiful voices like Moffo's go unappreciated. (Of course Roberta Peters is my favorite, but Moffo is excellent in her short prime. I feel her beauty actually distracted people from her singing, and she fell back on her sex appeal.)
“Shrieking” Callas! “Fell back in her sex appeal.” Such jealousy and self-important carping.
I’m so glad many more people don’t agree with your mean-spirited, arrogant dismissal of Calls and Moffo two of the greats, far more acclaimed than Peters. Why not leave thoughtful and positive remarks instead of arrogant and snide comments?
CALLAS, THE SCATOLOGICAL SOPRANO (continued)
Said Serafin, "Opera is a sacred art,
So try not to sound, dear, like you're ripping a fart,
I love you, but you lack any bel canto skill --
Your demented yodeling is so not a trill."
Having said that he is a foul-mouthed, crude, insecure, excuse for a man. Why repeat such vile and inaccurate slurs from a narcissist ?!
beautiful ...