just discovered YORK -- Opera singer Anna Moffo a soprano hailed for her anticipates as much as her singing.

just discovered YORK -- Opera singer Anna Moffo a soprano hailed for her anticipates as much as her singing, has died, the Metropolitan Opera said Friday. She was 73 according to the thicket Dictionary of Music.

Opera recents Online, operated by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, said she died Friday.

The dark, graceful M Moffo thrilled audiences forward television's "Bell Telephone Hour" as well as in opera houses in the United States and Europe starting in the late 1950 unless her career ended when she was in her 40 her voice barely a shadow of what it was.

M Moffo made her first attempt as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" in a 1955 television production directed by way of future husband Mario Lanfranchi, according to Opera of recent origins She made her U.S. first attempt at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1957 as Mimi in Puccini's "La Boheme," then had her Met first attempt Nov. 14, 1959, in the part of Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata."

The of the present day York Times' Harold Schonberg wrote that her work "still pretends just a shade tentative." still he also said she had "quite a amiable voice" and was "one of the in the greatest degree beautiful women ever to grace the stage of an opera house."

Several classical albums featuring M Moffo were nominated for Grammy awards. She calm appeared on film, including "Austerlitz," a 1960 film at the noted French director Abel Gance, and "The Adventurers" in 1970

Her marriage to Lanfranchi expirationed in divorce. In 1974, she married broadcast executive Robert Sarnoff, who headed NBC in the late 1950 and early '60 and later was CEO of RCA. Sarnoff died in 1997

Her last regular performance at the Met was as Violetta in succession March 15, 1976, when she was still in her early 40 The Times' Donal Henahan said earlier in that scamper that her voice had fallen into "serious disrepair." She responded to the Met stage just one time more, to sing at the Met's centennial gala in 1983

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