Mario Lanfranchi

Mario Lanfranchi (born June 30, 1927) is an Italian film 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 dei 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 unknown and inexperienced Anna Moffo. The TV broadcast aired on January 24, 1956, and made Moffo an overnight sensation in Italy. They married on December 8, 1957; the couple divorced on May 9, 1974.

Opera TV Productions and films

• 1956 - Madama Butterfly - Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni, Miti Truccato Pace, Afro Poli
• 1956 - La fanciulla del West - Gigliola Frazzoni, Ken Neate, Mario Petri
• 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
• 1960 - Tosca - Magda Olivero, Alvinio Misciano, Giulio Fioravanti
• 1962 - La serva padrona - Anna Moffo, Paolo Montarsolo
• 1968 - La traviata - Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi (film)
• 1971 - Lucia di Lammermoor - Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington (film)

Sources

This article was translated from Mario Lanfranchi on the Italian Wikipedia where the sources listed were:

• Mario Lanfranchi on the Internet Movie Database