BY JAY NORDLINGER [NY Sun, 22 September 2006]

The Metropolitan Opera Guild does many things well, and one of them is: stage a memorial tribute. In May 2005, the Guild put on a beautiful one for Renata Tebaldi, the great Italian soprano who died in December 2004. The host of that evening was Anna Moffo, the beloved Italian-American soprano. She did her job in a tasteful, low-key way.