Edda Dell'Orso
Edda Dell'Orso (* 16th February 1935 in Genoa as Edda Sabatini ) is an Italian soprano . She gained fame through her collaboration with Ennio Morricone on his film music . Dell'Orso also worked with Bruno Nicolai , Piero Piccioni and Luis Bacalov , among others .
Life
Edda Dell'Orso grew up in Rome . In 1956 she completed her singing and piano studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and then sang in the choir of the composer and conductor Franco Potenza . In 1958 she married and had two children.
Shortly after the birth of their children, Dell'Orso began working with the composer Alessandro Alessandroni . Through him she met Ennio Morricone, with whom she also began a collaboration. So Dell'Orso sang the soprano part in several of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns pieces used. These include For a Fistful of Dollars , Two Glorious Scoundrels (especially for The Ecstasy of Gold ) and Spiel mir das Lied von Tod (especially the final scene with the theme song Once Upon a Time in the West ). Outside of the western genre, she worked on the music for the horror film Orca, the killer whale and the gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America .
During her career, Dell'Orso worked with other renowned film composers such as Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni and Luis Bacalov. For Bacalov her singing could be heard in the background in an instrumental version of the song Lo Chiamavano King (His Name Is King) for the spaghetti western Lo Chiamavano King with Klaus Kinski in the lead role. The sung version of the song heard in the opening credits (which was also used again in 2012 in Quentin Tarantino's Western Django Unchained as a reference to the character of Dr. King Schultz played by Christoph Waltz ) comes from the singer Ann Collin .
Edda Dell'Orso is still active as a soprano today. She has been working with composer Alex Puddu since 2013. The first joint album Registrazioni al Buio was released that same year, followed by In the Eye Of The Cat in 2016 and The Mark of the Devil in 2017.
Filmography (selection)
Films with the use of pieces of music with Edda Dell'Orso as soprano are listed.
- 1964: For a handful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
- 1965: For a few dollars more (Per qualche dollaro in più)
- 1966: Two glorious scoundrels (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
- 1967: Perry Rhodan - SOS from space
- 1967: Face to Face (Faccia a faccia)
- 1967: The Stranger (Lo straniero)
- 1967: San Sebastian (La Bataille De San Sebastian)
- 1968: Play me the song of death (C'era una volta il West)
- 1968: Danger: Diabolics! (Diabolic)
- 1969: Murder in a black Cadillac (Femmine insaziabili)
- 1971: The nine-tailed cat (Il gatto a nove code)
- 1971: Melody of Death (Giù la testa)
- 1971: Lo chiamavano King
- 1971: The Coup (Le Casse)
- 1972: The Secret of the Green Pin (Cosa avete fatto a Solange?)
- 1972: Three Our Fathers for four scoundrels (Il grande duello)
- 1974: The Net of a Thousand Eyes (Le Secret)
- 1977: Orca, the killer whale (Orca)
- 1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Once Upon a Time in America)
- 1987: The Secret of the Sahara (Il segreto del Sahara)
- 2013: The Best Offer - The highest bid (La migliore offerta)
Web links
- Edda Dell'Orso in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edda Dell'Orso at Discogs (English)
- Interview with Edda Dell'Orso on the6thdimension.com (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dell'Orso, Edda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sabatini, Edda (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soprano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |