Anna Moffo, born June 27, 1932, in Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, died March 9, 2006, in New York City, United States, was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. Moffo won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Moffo made her official operatic debut in 1955 as Norina in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale in Spoleto, and achieved national fame in Italy performing as Cio-Cio-San in an RAI television production of Madama Butterfly in 1956. Moffo made her American operatic debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Mimì in La bohème in 1957, and made her Metropolitan Opera debut on November 14, 1959, as Violetta in La traviata, performing at the Met for 17 seasons. In 1960, Moffo signed an exclusive recording contract with RCA Victor. Moffo hosted The Anna Moffo Show on Italian television, starred in operatic film adaptations of La traviata in 1967 and Lucia di Lammermoor in 1971, and made her final Metropolitan Opera appearance in 1983. Moffo died of a stroke at age 73.
