Anna Moffo sings La Traviata (vaimusic.com)

[feriixz]

Where can i watch the full movie???

[sttar1982]

Grazie Anna <3

[246zxc12]

What's not to like about Anna Moffo? Beautiful presence and performance.  She hits all the notes. Was she the greatest? Who cares?

[Michelllaa]

Geourgious this Diva -- she had my tones.. my goddd.. i found one !!! More betta then alll these other divas...

[Michelllaa]

Tchouchi ??? Winnetou...?



[ccipollini1984]

Good lord, i need to hear this

[rubyedelman]

to khotue: Please keep your interpretations to yourself as you cannot even do half of what Anna Moffo does here... I hate when baseless interpretations are made by those who have no ideas ...that is why opera dies, because of the "professors" like you.

[AsdLoquendo]

W italyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyy

[IoanaDestro]

THIS IS NOT A LIVE RECORDING. THIS IS A FILM IN WHICH ANNA MOFFO IS NOT SINGING, SHE ONLY OPENS HER MOUTH. She's a perfect singer and a great actress.

[kwgrid]

Admittedly I don't know much about opera but is this dubbed? It all seems so very effortless for such a fabulous, powerful voice. Beautiful!

[racheleleeba]

@kwgrid You're right, it is dubbed. All opera films are, as far as I know.

[shaby3333]

Bella...dentro e fuori..una meravigliosa eccezzione della natura

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Zeani

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Zeani

[Jael6971]

Bravissima!!! Not very often you find such a beautiful voice in such a beautiful woman!!

[italomelomane]

Veramente brava !

[peque1204]

¡Increible!... Genial!!!...

una de los mejores versiones de, addio del passato.

[BDWYSTARNYC]

OMG I just love this...it is so perfect...and gorgeous!

[mariasarda]

Une voix gorgée d'optimisme et de soleil qui, même dans le dramatisme de Traviata arrive à nous communiquer son immense santé ! Une actrice stupéfiante et belle en diable !

[MastersoftheOpera]

Anna Moffo's Violetta is, for me, the best. She sings it with so much emotion and with character expression. Her voice is lush, beautiful and perfectly suited to Verdi's heroine. Callas was sublime in the role but for me Moffo seems more in-depth and truly at one with the character. I own the RCA recording from Rome in the early 60's & she's glorious.

[Wonderyourlips]

bello,bello y hermoso...mágico.

[kiska20]

It's too late! I wait and wait, but they'll never come! oh, how I have change! Yet the doctor tries to give me hope! Ah, with this diseaseall hope is dead! Ferewell to the past, to bright dream; the roses in my cheeks are faded. Not even Alfredo's love remaines to sustain my weary spirit. Ah, to a lost womangrant a last wish- forgive her and receive her, O god! Ah, all is ended, now is ended.

[kiska20]

translation: "you have kept your promise. the duel took place; the baron was wounded, but is recovering. Alfredo is abroed. I myself told him about your sacrifice. He will return to beg your forgivnes; I also shal come. take care of yourself; you deserve a better future. -Giorgio Germont."

[kiska20]

but its so much more powerful when you understand what she is singing...I have the script somewhere I will try to translate it for you.

[xulica1980]

The music in is very powerful you dont have to know what she is saying to understand

[bettygoodbody]

i like! would like the translation and the italian , she is sad about something, i m going to find out. thanks for the beauty in the music.

[corellithebest]

Wonderful, both singing and acting. However, the only thing is that she looks somewhat too well for a woman that is dying of consumption, especially if one compares with how Zeffirelli made Teresa Stratas look in his film: she looked so pale, sweaty, sunken eyes, etc. It was a more realistic approach to Violetta's illness and death.

[musicofilonapoletano]

Bella. Giovane. Brava. Buona.

[Oldtinear]

Beautiful singing. However, she is miming in this film clip, and this leads to a lack of emotional involvement, both by her and by the listener. It is a shame. I would love to hear her sing this live.

[theusrocks]

Bravo! Wonderful, I think I cried a little!

[Manigran]

Beautiful and heart wrenching! Anna, beautiful job!

It's hard to say who's the better Violetta, Freni or Moffo. I hate to compare the two, so I will just say they are equally fantastic. Brava, both of you!

[khothye]

Many singers open one side of their mouth more than the other (like Domingo, Bartoli, etc.). I think that this wasnt the reason of the declining of her voice. Seeing and listening her, I think that she had problems with the liberation of the sound: she used too much the muscles of the neck and doesn't relax enaughly her throat. A pitty, because for me she was he best lyric soprano of the XX century. However we have this wonderfulls recordings to enjoy her extraordinary talent in her best

[corellithebest]

I agree with you, except that here you can't really "see" her technique, because it's mimed. You could see how her throat muscles are positioned in singing if you watched her live (be it concert or opera performance). But anyway, she is fantastic here!

[khothye]

You are right: in this clip she is miming. But my commentary was said in base of many live performances of Moffo that I've oberved carefully (obviously in video). And more than that, listening her. But thanks for the aclaration.

[corellithebest]

I understood that, and I am sorry if I sounded arrogant, this was really not my intention. Obviously I have not seen her singing live even near as often as you have, so I accept your judgment on some flaws in her singing technique (not relaxing her muscles enough) that led to her vocal decline. I really like her singing and acting. And by the way, concerning her infamous recording of Carmen in 1970s (Ithe one with Corelli) I didn't find her all that bad, on the contrary.

[WQ673]

Anna Moffos Stimme ist wunderbar. Ihr leicht dunkles Timbre verbunden mit einem leichten Vibrato bringt einen einmaligen Klang und Ausdruck hervor. Außerdem war sie eine wunderschöne Dame. Sie wird zuwenig gewürdigt und offensichtlich vergessen.

[Marinausbcn]

Grandiosa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anna Moffo estoy deslumbrado ante tanta belleza y su Violetta es superba!!!!!!! Anna Moffo es poseedora de una calidadvocal y actoral extrema, BRAVA!!!!!!!!

[operaxxlove]

She is stunning! Both vocally and physically.

[prague17000]

Out. Of. This. World.

[fangINaDRESS]

wow.

[darkblue940]

E Tardi!

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[liliponsify]

wow, 'E tardi'.

[DonRolini]

hahaha! me too "E tardi!"Wow!

[yllodnkcor]

wow now that IS interpretation

[papagena92]

@yllodnkcor reading of the letter WOW!!!!!

[MrRicksStudio]

@yllodnkcor Have you heard Claudia Muzio?

[GoodDivaoftheEast]

I love Anna Moffo - I really love her Magda - she is the reason I fell in love with La Rondine!

[eugenelohks]

My my, that was the most emotional 'E tardi' I've ever heard...

[thomastmwc]

she looks like Callas somehow, mayb bcoz of her eyebrows??

[tazkorinthos]

yes i believe the same with you both of them were very beautifull women...

[MrsLonChaney]

I see it too, both are great beauties!

[saxamaphoneguy1]

I was thinking maybe Angela Gheorghiu? maybe it's the long dark hair....gorgeous woman either way!

[dks880]

A far better version than some of the crap on youtube.

[bellasoprano]

I also adore Beverly Sills' interpretation of this role, but to me Anna Moffo is the quintessential Violetta.

[cutegrandma]

I loved the character Violetta...love this portrayal.....

[Tenorbravo]

Anna Moffo..touched my heart with this interpretation...WONDERFUL...t­HANK YOU FOR SHAING IT...I wish I `d had the opportunity to see her interpreting the whole opera...THANKS...ANNA.. nEVER GET TIRED OF LISTENING TO THIS BELLISIMA INTERPRETATION..SHE UNDERSTOOD...THE ROLE OF VIOLETA

[quaddrix07]

She makes it look so easy! So rich.

[Ichichan0326]

Soooo beautiful <3<3<3<3<3<3

[EvaFlorence95]

Meravigliosa, non ci sono parole...

[Felicity1247]

She looks a teensy bit too well for someone with consumption, but that's my only complaint. She's a great singer and never once is shrill in hitting her high notes. And she has the good looks to go with it as well. I just discovered her here on YouTube--what a find!

[livi313]

now SHE is a violetta!

[ChoZone]

Like a dream. Wonderful.

[Heraopera]

She has been a real Violetta! She has been beautiful elegant looking with this sexy tone - a real womansound a curtisane who loved with passion and this attitude of a Traviatawomantouch in her tones! This you have to have for Violetta ......BRAAAAAVA! Grazie Anna!

[TheInquisitive4Ever]

Aenese--as a 18 yo clueless fiddlestick, do you have a magic apparatus which allows you to measure those percentages? Did your parents drop you on your head or gave you painted cookie chips when you were a kid? Now get lost and acquire some common sense!

[543johnson]

It's like her voice is dying with the character. A true Violetta.

[aenese34]

I loved this!It's really THE violetta's voice, altough, I prefer Callas, wich, in my opinion, is The best Violetta.Callas-100% Moffo-97% could you please post the final scene??come on!

[corellithebest]

Yes, I like Moffo, she has a beautiful voice and is a passionate Violetta. However, my favourite Violettas are Callas, Romanian divas Virginia Zeani and Angela Gheorghiu. These are QUINTESSENTIAL VIOLETTAS!

[mariasarda]

J'adore Moffo. Réabilitons sa mémoire! C'est l'une des voix les plus originales qui soient ! Pleine, ronde, chaleureuse, gaie !! Sa versatilité est extraordinaire. Je suis Moffo's addict !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Klassizismus]

Noooo, your comment is absurd. She excelled not only in Opera, but also in movies and in one scene she was nude in a shower for 40 seconds or so. That 40 seconds ruined her reputation as an Opera singer, but she can be recognized as a serious artist, although she overworked her voice with too many and too heavy roles, she also started too young.

[cantanteporsiempre]

ok, thank you for the cleareance, but, my comment is not absurd, so people said she was a porno star, so I´m not saying a lie, if it¨s true or not, that¨s the role for the history, so don¨t phanatized

[elias12186]

Wow I would love to see that scene :)

[foropera]

Who did this movie? She is made up like for the first act, when she should be sick and nearly dying...She is really a handsome woman and voice, but...it is really funny to compare her voice with Callas'one. OK in a movie but i a theater, that's another thing. She was a lyric and couldn't have done all the dramatic parts that Callas did like Isolde, Kundry, Brünnhilde, Abigaïlle, etc.

[RaYNeKoSs]

it's before the magnificent final scene..

[donthuis]

This is an early version of "Addio del passato". Her later versions started more desperate: after reading the letter she realizes happiness will never return and this is heard immediately . A number of bars later there's no difference between earlier and later versions. Heartwrenching (as it should be) because of her earlier sacrifice for renouncing her love for Alfredo. With Verdi you need such a voice, Puccini melodies even brings tears when played on a street organ!

[silvr1507]

I really hope I never forget the beaty and passion in Anna Moffo's voice. Such purity is very rare - what talent! Brava!

She plays Violetta just as Verdi would have wanted her to play her; if not better.

[tonytib]

Philly girl. It's not only cheese steaks, man!

[gottaseeit1]

And what a nice human being (she was my favorite baby sitter when I was a kid - I loved her amazing dimples) and I think that inner beauty is evident in her work.

[DruliaSnotter]

OMG!! This is why Moffo is my favorite soprano of all time! She has such a distinctive voice and style... and those pianissimi at the end of the aria are magnificent!

[Milordvega]

Some say Callas was the best Violetta but that was before my time. On records though, her performance simply does not hold up, though I am sure on stage she must have been magnificent.

Moffo though does not only have Callas' acting ability and an even more beautiful appearance, she has a better voice. Her dramatic instincts were there too and clear diction.

My favorite Violetta

[mdancer01]

wow she is perfect for this roll

[Timishead]

She had it all...the darkness...the bueatiful feminine tones.....gorgous bombshell looks ..great musicality and the grace n ease needed for violetta

[doperasinger]

VERY TRUE!! Anna Moffo had it all..and especially in this role. All her lyric and dramatic gifts were all on display in this role.  If she never did anything else, she would go down in history as one of the greatest Violettas.

[patjan92]

You said it!  I won't even make a comment; yours is perfect.

[mrrk]

Moffo was a stunning Violetta.