Anna Moffo ANNA MOFFO, internationally acclaimed soprano, was born in Philadelphia and grew up just outside of that city in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Although she was mostly interested in sports during her high school days, upon her graduation she won a full scholarship to the renowned Curtis Institute of Music and also at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon her graduation from Curtis, she was awarded another scholarship, the coveted Fulbright Fellowship and studied at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, The Conservatorio di Benedetto Marcello in Venice, the Young Artist Program at La Scala in Milano and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Her very first audition landed her the title role of Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly in Milan. The performance was televised live and Anna, known ever since as “La Moffo,” was an overnight sensation, sought after by every theater in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the youngest soprano ever to have made her debut as Violetta (in what has become her signature role) in “La Traviata.” She has sung at the Vienna Staatsoper, Covent Garden in London, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Bayrische Oper in Munich, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Salzburg Festival, The Osaka and Tokyo Festivals, the Edinburgh Festival, Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon, the Royal Opera in Stockholm, the Teatro de Las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, etc. She has appeared in concert and oratorio with all the major orchestras and has sung worldwide as a much-loved recitalist. She had her own TV show in Rome for twelve years, where every Saturday night she would sing opera, operetta, Broadway musicals, dance with her own Ballet, conduct some of the orchestral selections and even composed some of the music for each broadcast. Her numerous recordings and videos are well known and she has made twelve non-singing movies. She has sung 146 major roles, including all the roles in “The Tales of Hoffman” (the first soprano ever to attempt this at the Metropolitan Opera, where she has also done twenty-eight other roles) and did the first Met Concerts in the Parks. She has sung for Kings and Queens and for seven American Presidents, and has received numerous awards and decorations including the Commendatore of the Italian Republic, an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, the New York Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence and most recently the National Opera Association Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been described as one of the greatest sopranos of the century. Critics have remarked on the sheer beauty of her voice, as well as her intense acting ability and legendary beauty. She will certainly go down in history as one of the greatest artists of our time. Return