Anna Moffo sings Butterfly (vaimusic.com)

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Excerpt from Chapter 32 - Anna Moffo sings Death of Butterfly "Con onor moure... Tu, tu, piccolo iddio!"
From: VAI DVD 4284 Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Complete Opera Film
1956 RAI telecast starring Anna Moffo in the performance that brought her international renown.
127 min. Region 0. B&W
Oliviero De Fabritiis, conductor. (1956)
Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevisione Italiana Milano
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[catface1965]

Great performance. Great singing AND ACTING. Those of you who made comments about "over-acting" think for a second... this person is driven to such desperation that she is about to stab herself to death. Actual human behaviour in this circumstance would be much bigger and more extreme than Moffo's acting. "Acting is living truthfully under Imaginary Circumstances Sanford Meisner. This is not overacting, this is appropriate operatic acting in the circumstance of a suicide.

[mrantiquedealer]

tTat's NOT overacting! It's stage acting on tv. That's all!!

[ArchiducDeBelgrade]

Beautiful.

[robertmckinn]

4:03 What that child's hearing is not.

[Vocal Coach Adonis]

I hope the little kid has ear plugs! He could lose his hearing or have his eyes blown out!

[Gordon Chow]

Gorgeous performance, Butterfly should be a young girl's voice and Moffo has it. She's up there with Toti Dal Monte in my book, but I hadn't seen Moffo act before. No wonder she became a sensation overnight!

[Kathleen Hazeldine]

All Anna Moffo had done by a plastic surgeon was to have her nose changed a bit...that's all! She was very beautiful before having this done. Watch her earlier works...See her as a child...nothing was changed other than to put a slight curve to her nose which is only noticeable from one side or the other...not face front. I like it better after the very little work was done on just the profile of her nose.

[NEBESHIKU]

WOW! How different Moffo looks before all the work she had on her face! Here you can see her real nose, chin and cheek bones! She must of gone to one of the best plastic surgents in the world because he did a great job, he turn an other wise common woman in to a beauty queen!

[profgv]

Fantastic...Saw her do this in concert with the Met in some NYC park..Just glorious......

[goblinonacloud]

Great lyric sopranos are about both singing and acting. Anna was one of the best period. No one expects rock singers to sound the same so why people expect sopranos to sound the same always makes me roll my eyes and growl.

[baritonodaw]

Nicely explained....thanks catface 1965