Unsigned lapis and gold link necklace from the Estate of Anna Moffo Sarnoff

Item# 12300

Circa 1980

16" long

This is a gold link 16" necklace from the Estate of America's finest lyrical

$195

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Biographical Information on Anna Moffo Sarnoff:
Born 6/27/32 in Wayne Indiana died 3/10/2006. She received a Fullbright Scholarship to The Academia de Santa Cecilia in Rome to study advanced opera. Debuted on November 1959 by playing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera.

She was a major recording artist for RCA victor records and traveled the world performing.

Anna was considered the best known American lyrical and dramatic soprano singer in the 1950's. It her later life she was married to Robert Sarnoff the Chairman of RCA.

She was well known for her charity fund raising and received the Spirit Award in 1967 as well as the Cancer Society Humanitarian award in 2004.

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