Mario Lanfranchi
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Mario Lanfranchi (born June 30, 1927) is an Italian director and producer, of both television and film. He was married to Italian-American soprano Anna Moffo.
Born in Parma, he studied at the Accademia de Filodrammatici in Milan. He was hired by Italian Television (RAI) and directed a number of successful opera productions made for TV, the first being Madama Butterfly, featuring the then virtually unkown and inexperienced Anna Moffo, the TV broadcast aired on January 24, 1956, and made Moffo an overnight sensation in Italy, and launched her meteoric rise to international stardom. They married on December 8, 1957. The couple separated in 1972, and divorced in 1974.
[edit] Opera TV Productions and films
- 1956 - Madama Butterfly - Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni, Miti Truccato Pace, Afo Poli
- 1956 - La sonnambula - Anna Moffo, Danilo Vega, Plinio Clabassi
- 1958 - Turandot - Lucille Udovich, Franco Corelli, Renata Mattioli, Plinio Clabassi
- 1959 - Lucia di Lammermoor - Anna Moffo, Nicola Filacuridi, Dino Dondi, Ferruccio Mazzoli
- 1962 - La serva padrona - Anna Moffo, Paolo Montarsalo
- 1968 - La traviata - Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi (film)
- 1971 - Lucia di Lammermoor - Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington (film)
[edit] Sources
- Translated from an aritcle on Wikepedia Italiano.
