Edda Dell'Orso (born Edda Sabatini; February 16, 1935) is an Italian singer known for her collaboration with composer
Ennio Morricone, for whom she provided wordless vocals to a large number of his
film scores
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ...
. Dell'Orso also provided vocals to scores of other Italian composers such as
Bruno Nicolai,
Piero Piccioni
Piero Piccioni (; December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer.
A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on ...
,
Luis Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine-born film composer. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim the conductor of the Berlin, and Chicago orchestras, and also Berta Sujovolsky ...
and
Roberto Pregadio. She was born in
Genoa
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.
In Morricone's film scores of the original
Spaghetti Westerns
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directed by
Sergio Leone, her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect,
Internet Movie Database, Edda Dell'Orso
/ref> such as in ''A Fistful of Dollars
''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, ...
'', ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' ( it, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Clee ...
'' (in particular for " The Ecstasy of Gold" track) and ''Once Upon a Time in the West
''Once Upon a Time in the West'' ( , "Once upon a time (there was) the West") is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Leone ...
''.
More recently, Dell'Orso collaborated with Italian composer Alex Puddu on the albums ''Registrazioni al Buio'' (2013, Schema Records), ''In the Eye Of The Cat'' (2016, Schema Records), ''The Mark of the Devil'' (2017, Al Dente) and ''The Gambler'' (2018).
Filmography
Notes
External links
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Soundtracks with Dell'Orso
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1935 births
Living people
Italian women singers