Movies: Anna Moffo

Soprano Anna Moffo stars as winsome courtesan Violetta Valery -- who tries to protect her rash lover, Alfredo, even if it means lying and breaking his heart -- in this 1968 version of composer Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece. Recorded at the Rome Opera ...

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He ...

Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963....

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contri...

In Italy in the 60's it is difficult to get a divorce. Carlo gets a visit from his Swedish wife, but he is already remarried. Every time he meets a new woman, he vanishes away from the last wife....

Italian TV production of the Bellini opera...

An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe...

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life....

After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the f...

Mario Lanfranchi directed this film adaptation, starring Anna Moffo....

Legendary soprano Anna Moffo stars as Lucia and Lajos Kozma plays her lover, Edgardo, in this lush production of Gaetano Donizetti's great bel canto opera. Featuring gorgeous cinematography, the film was shot in authentic Italian locations in 1971 an...

A married woman falls in love with a playboy dedicated to blackmail, to avoid that reveal his unedifying past, abandons her....

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Pergolesi Opera Buffa...

With the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" commenced the remarkably successful cooperation between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The first night of "Figaro", presumably Mozart's most perfect musical comedy, was held in Vienna on May 1st, 1786....