Opera star Anna Moffo dies at 73 US Opera singer Anna Moffo, who was a star of New York's Metropolitan Opera for two decades, has died aged 73. Moffo made her debut in a TV production of Madame Butterfly in 1955, appearing at the Met for the first time in 1959 as Violetta in La Traviata. She was Grammy-nominated for best classical solo performance by a vocalist in 1962, and appeared in films including Austerlitz in 1960. Her last regular performance at the Met was in 1976. Moffo's voice deteriorated relatively early on in her career, but she returned to...