Anna Moffo and Related Topics

Cesare Siepi

Italian opera singer, generally considered to have been one of the finest basses of the post-war period.

Siepi's last studio recording was as the old King Archibaldo in RCA's 1976 taping of Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re, with Anna Moffo and Plácido Domingo in the cast.

Metropolitan Opera

American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Gatti-Casazza's last week at the Met (March 22–29, 1935)

Artur Bodanzky at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Roberta Peters, Victoria de los Ángeles, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire,, Birgit Nilsson, Joan Sutherland, Régine Crespin, Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballé, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, James McCracken, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Tito Gobbi, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

Vienna State Opera

Opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.

Construction site of the new building, 1863

Play bill for the opening performance of the new Opernhaus, announcing the opening performance of Don Giovanni on 25 May 1869

Coeval watercolour painting of the opening performance (Kunsthistorisches Museum)

Play bill of the last performance in the old building: Götterdämmerung, 30 June 1944

Gustav Mahler was artistic director of the Hofoper from 1897 to 1907

Herbert von Karajan, artistic director of the Vienna State Opera from 1957 to 1964

View from the Ring, on the roof the tent for children's performances (demounted in 2015 and now replaced by a special theatre)

View of the orchestra pit and safety curtain The curtain Play as Cast was designed by Tacita Dean, and installed during the season 2004–2005.

Debutants entry at the Vienna Opera Ball

Rear of the opera house, showing the stage wings

A marble staircase between the main entrance and the first floor

Anna Moffo

Set design for act 1 in the 1913 premiere

L'amore dei tre re

Opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi.

1977 – Anna Moffo, Plácido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, Cesare Siepi, Ryland Davies, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Nello Santi – (RCA Red Seal, 1977)

Nello Santi

Italian conductor.

He made sound and video recordings of Italian operas, including in 1971 Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé and Sherrill Milnes, in 1976 Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re with Anna Moffo, Domingo and Pablo Elvira, in 2000 Verdi's I due Foscari, and in 2006 Donizetti's Don Pasquale in a Zürich production.

Looking southeast from Rittenhouse Square toward the Curtis Institute's main building at the corner of Locust Street (on the left) and South 18th Street (on the right) (2006)

Curtis Institute of Music

Private conservatory in Philadelphia.

Anna Moffo, soprano

Leopold Stokowski

British conductor.

Leopold Stokowski historical marker at 240 S. Broad St., Philadelphia

Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra at 2 March 1916 American premiere of Mahler's 8th Symphony

Screenshot from the 1947 film Carnegie Hall

Stokowski's grave at East Finchley Cemetery.

In 1960, Stokowski made one of his infrequent appearances in the opera house, when he conducted Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at the New York Metropolitan, in memorable performances with a cast that included Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli and Anna Moffo.

Mezzo-soprano vocal range (A3–A5) notated on the treble staff (left) and on piano keyboard in green with dot marking middle C (C4).

Rosalind Elias

American mezzo-soprano who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera.

Elias made numerous recordings primarily for RCA Victor during the 1960s, including Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro under Erich Leinsdorf, Preziosilla in La forza del destino and Laura in La Gioconda, both opposite Zinka Milanov, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Leonard Warren, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly twice, first opposite Anna Moffo in 1957, and then opposite Leontyne Price in 1962, Azucena in Il trovatore opposite Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Giorgio Tozzi, as well as Maddalena in Rigoletto, Meg Page in Falstaff (both under Georg Solti in 1963) and Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle.

Fausto Cleva

Austro-Hunarian Empire-born American operatic conductor.

He left some very important recordings, such as Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Richard Tucker and Giuseppe Valdengo; Catalani's La Wally with Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco; Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas, Franco Corelli and Tito Gobbi; and Verdi's Luisa Miller with Anna Moffo and Carlo Bergonzi.

Luigi Ricci (vocal coach)

Italian assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author.

Ricci was also active as a vocal coach at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he taught (amongst many others) Sesto Bruscantini, Richard Miller, Anna Moffo, Rosalind Elias, Ezio Flagello, Joanna Bruno, Peter Lindroos, and Martti Wallén.