Anna Moffo was a complicated, brilliant,and vastly talented human being. During her too-brief vocal prime I think that she was,overall, the finest singer/musician whom I have ever heard. {And I've checked out MANY!}
End of all discussions! MOFFO was simply one of the greatest singers ever. What a fine document , so nostalgic, with the voice of an angel. Almost heavenly.
O you cannot know how absolutely BELOVED Anna Moffo was back in the day, with prime time television shows in both the US and in Italy, presenting both opera and interviews and informative entertainment-she brought light to and lifted so many lives. This number may seem hokey-dokey but as a measure of how her character, and talent, and visionary musical magicianship was welcomed by the masses, it is an apt illustration.
Anche se la Moffo avesse cantato solo quest'aria in tutta la sua carriera, il suo nome sarebbe comunque entrato nell'olimpo. Signori: qui non ce n'è per nessuno.
Oh my god she's so fantastic. I love her so much !! I am so happy whenever I find a piece I'm looking for with her. It's usually her version that's the best. And DAMN she sang EVERYTHING !!! LOVE her.
She recorded the role with Gobbi, Panerai, Alva, and Schwarzkopf under H. Von Karajan in 1957. It's a wonderful recording and this excerpt is superbly beautiful.
Che dire della moffo, lucia e' un esempio di interpretazione, merito anche della regia di lanfranchi. Lei oltre che bella , tra i meriti vocali ed espressivi aveva un corpo e due gambe da sogno, il che non guasta visivamente
In bocca sua questo pezzo diventa davvero un canto di fate un po come succedeva con Toti dal monte negli anni trenta !inutile naturalmente sottolineare il fascino di questa di questa donna ma lo faccio lo stesso! anche il il resto del cast eccelso(per me ) rendono questo Falstaff uno dei migliori in assoluto e sicuramente il migliore in video! Le ultime parole del buon vecchio verdi nell'opera sono state : tutto il mondo è burla ! Tutti gabbati tutti gabbati !! Dopo più di un secolo dalla prima di questo capolavoro chi può dargli torto?
Thank you so much for posting, I am in tears to see her sing such beautiful aria, I agree with most of you she is the perfect Nanetta. Not only she does the last phrase in one breath "le fate, hanno percifre, i fior" : Fairies have for alphabet flowers" they do when she is singing ,most magical piannisimo Bravissima
Hasn't anyone noticed that Moffo closes her mouth at 23 seconds into the aria? It is amazing that she is able to sing so beautifully with her mouth shut tight! :)
@@norwegianforestcat7471 2 different sound/film tracks. Splicing problems. The beginning of the aria has quite a lot of echo on it and it looks like she is singing playback - the lip-sync is off. After 0:23 the sound is much more direct and it seems that from then on she is singing live. They obviously did many takes because the fading in and out of the kids at the end is post editing. It is of course to be forgiven as in 1956 they were technically still in the stone age regarding live opera performances :)
thank you,thank you,thank you. Falstaff is the greatest opera and this scene and music is among Verdi's best. Thankfully Serafin is conducting here and not vonKarajan, who seemed to conduct this deathly slow- not at all the 'quicksilver' as suggested by Toscanini.
Que bella era la Moffo, no tenía nada que envidiarle a Callas o a la Tebaldi, cada una dejo una marca imborrable en la historia de la Ópera, Moffo tenía la voz más pura que se alla escuchado jamás.
brava si ma non esageriamo! la Callas e la Tebaldi non si toccano. la Moffo è stata bellissima si ma dopo l'intervento di chirurgia estetica al suo naso.
Ahhhhhh, the Windsor Great Forest scene, where poor foolish Falstaff gets the scare of his life! "Falstaff" is one of my favorites . . . Verdi's last and perhaps greatest work, showing that not only did the the Old Man still have IT, but that he could write a convincing comedy - although, I have to say that I like his "Un giorno di regno" pretty well; I don't share the view of the Italian critics who panned its premiere, or the audiences who stayed away. Take it on its own merits.
although there are pretty beautiful version to here on youtube, this is a very interesting one: it seems the most "italian" to me; the voice is silvery and slim and one feels she still comes out of the belcanto school: great!!!
I still can't cognitively understand how she manages this deceptively simple (in reality quite perilous) moment in the opera so perfectly. PS. At 0:24, the sound does not sync up with the video. I wonder if we have any truly live recordings of Moffo singing this exquisite aria.
I have seen Moffo, Freni, Bonney and Battle on RU-vid and I narrowly prefer Freni! She Falstaff with Gobbi, Tebaldi, Di Stefano! Perhaps the quality of the cast dazzled me!
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