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. . . She died of a stroke after grappling with complications of breast cancer for 10 years, said a stepdaughter, Rosita Sarnoff.
Though Ms. Moffo's career began splendidly, her voice had declined by her late 30s. With her radiant appearance, she was drawn early on into television and film, hosting her own variety show on Italian television for many years.
She might not have fulfilled her promise, but for a good dozen years Ms. Moffo enjoyed enormous success and won a devoted following at a time when her competition for roles such as Verdi's Violetta, Pucccini's Mimi and Donizetti's Lucia included Maria Callas, RenataTtebaldi and Joan Sutherland.
Ms. Moffo made her stage opera debut in 1955 as Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale in Spoleto, Italy. Her big break came the next year, when she starred in a televixion production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly directed by Mario Lanfranchi. She and Lanfranchi married in 1957.
Ms. Moffo made he U.S. deut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1957 as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme, then had her Met debut in 1959 as Violetta in Traviata.
By the late 1960s her voice often was unreliable.
In 1969, Ms. Moffo caused a scandal in Italy when she appeare to be nude in a scene in the film Una Storia d'Amore.
In 1972 she and Lanfranchi divorced. Two years later she married Robert Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA.