Edda Dell'Orso

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Edda Dell'Orso
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Dell'Orso (right) with Nicola Samale
Born (1935-02-16) February 16, 1935 (age 88)
OccupationSinger
SpouseGiacomo Dell'Orso

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. [1] A soprano with a three-octave range, [2] Dell'Orso also provided vocals to scores of other Italian composers such as Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, Luis Bacalov and Roberto Pregadio. She was born in Genoa.

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In Morricone's film scores of the original Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect, [3] such as in A Fistful of Dollars , The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (in particular for "The Ecstasy of Gold" track) and Once Upon a Time in the West .

Soundtracks - A tribute to Pino Rucher. Edda Dell'Orso is singing a famous composition from the film Once Upon a Time in the West. Edda Dell'Orso con il pianista Giacomo Dell'Orso.jpg
Soundtracks – A tribute to Pino Rucher. Edda Dell'Orso is singing a famous composition from the film Once Upon a Time in the West .

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).

Selected filmography

YearFilm titleComposerDirector
1964I Malamondo Ennio Morricone Paolo Cavara
1965 For A Few Dollars More Ennio Morricone Sergio Leone
1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ennio Morricone Sergio Leone
1967 Faccia a faccia Ennio Morricone Sergio Sollima
1967 Lo straniero Piero Piccioni Luchino Visconti
1967 Matchless Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni Alberto Lattuada
1967 Seli Marcello Giombini Primo Zeglio
1968 Ecce homo Ennio Morricone Bruno Gaburro
1968Eva, la venere selvaggia Roberto Pregadio Roberto Mauri
1968 Guns for San Sebastian Ennio Morricone Henri Verneuil
1968 Scusi, facciamo l'amore? Ennio Morricone Vittorio Caprioli
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West Ennio Morricone Sergio Leone
1968 Diabolik Ennio Morricone Mario Bava
1968 They Came to Rob Las Vegas Georges Garvarentz Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
1969 Philosophy in the Boudoir (re-issued on CD as De Sade 70) Bruno Nicolai Jess Franco
1969 Femina ridens Stelvio Cipriani Piero Schivazappa
1969Angeli bianchi...angeli neri Piero Umiliani Luigi Scattini
1969 The Red Tent Ennio Morricone Mikhail Kalatozov
1969 Il commissario Pepe Armando Trovajoli Ettore Scola
1969La donna invisibile Ennio Morricone Paolo Spinola
1969 Femmine insaziabili Bruno Nicolai Alberto De Martino
1969 Metti, una sera a cena Ennio Morricone Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1969 Interrabang Berto Pisano Giuliano Biagetti
1970Intimità proibite di una giovane sposa Stelvio Cipriani Oscar Brazzi
1970 Le foto proibite di una signora per bene Ennio Morricone Luciano Ercoli
1970De Sade 2000 Bruno Nicolai Jess Franco
1970 La moglie più bella Ennio Morricone Damiano Damiani
1970 L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo Ennio Morricone Dario Argento
1971 La corta notte delle bambole di vetro Ennio Morricone Aldo Lado
1971Deserto di fuoco Roberto Pregadio, Franco Bixio Renzo Merusi
1971Forza G Ennio Morricone Duccio Tessari
1971 Il gatto a nove code Ennio Morricone Dario Argento
1971 Giornata nera per l'ariete Ennio Morricone Luigi Bazzoni
1971 Duck, You Sucker! Ennio Morricone Sergio Leone
1971 Lo Chiamavano King Luis Bacalov Giancarlo Romitelli
1971 The Burglars Ennio Morricone Henri Verneuil
1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Jacques Chaumont, Berto Pisano Romain Gary
1971Questo sporco mondo meraviglioso Piero Umiliani Mino Loy, Luigi Scattini
1971Una vergine tra i morti viventi Bruno Nicolai Jess Franco
1971Il vichingo venuto dal sud Armando Trovajoli Steno
1971La volpe dalla coda di velluto Piero Piccioni José María Forqué
1971 L'uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio Peppino De Luca Alberto De Martino
1971Veruschka, poesia di una donna Ennio Morricone Franco Rubartelli
1971 La tarantola dal ventre nero Ennio Morricone Paolo Cavara
1971 Una lucertola con la pelle di donna Ennio Morricone Lucio Fulci
1971 La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba Bruno Nicolai Emilio Miraglia
1971Bella di giorno moglie di notte Gianfranco Plenizio Nello Rossati
1971 4 mosche di velluto grigio Ennio Morricone Dario Argento
1971 L'uomo più velenoso del cobra Stelvio Cipriani Bitto Albertini
1971Stress Carlo Savina Corrado Prisco
1971 Maddalena Ennio Morricone Jerzy Kawalerowicz
1972 Cosa avete fatto a Solange? Ennio Morricone Massimo Dallamano
1972 Un bianco vestito per Marialé Fiorenzo Carpi Romano Scavolini
1972I figli chiedono perché Ennio Morricone Nino Zanchin
1972 Alla ricerca del piacere Teo Usuelli Silvio Amadio
1972 Il grande duello Luis Bacalov, Sergio Bardotti Giancarlo Santi
1972 Il maestro e Margherita Ennio Morricone Aleksandar Petrović
1972 La cosa buffa Ennio Morricone Aldo Lado
1972La gatta in caloreGianfranco PlenizioNello Rossati
1972La notte dei diavoli Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Ferroni
1972 Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile Giorgio Gaslini Roberto Bianchi Montero
1973 La morte ha sorriso all'assassino Berto Pisano Joe D'Amato
1973 La nuit des étoiles filantes Bruno Nicolai Jesús Franco
1973Simbad e il califfo di Bagdad Alessandro Alessandroni Pietro Francisci
1973Un modo di essere donna Piero Piccioni Pier Ludovico Pavoni
1974La cugina Ennio Morricone Aldo Lado
1974 The Secret Ennio Morricone Robert Enrico
1974Prigione di donne Albert Verrecchia Brunello Rondi
1974 Lisa e il diavolo Carlo Savina Mario Bava
1975 Macchie solari Ennio Morricone Armando Crispino
1975La encadenada Carlo Savina Manuel Mur Oti
1976 Roma drogata la polizia non puo intervenire Albert Verrecchia Lucio Marcaccini
1977 Il gatto Ennio Morricone Luigi Comencini
1977 Orca Ennio Morricone Michael Anderson
1981Caligola e MessalinaGiacomo Dell'Orso Bruno Mattei
1982Nerone e PoppeaGiacomo Dell'Orso Bruno Mattei
1984 Once Upon a Time in America Ennio Morricone Sergio Leone
1988 Il segreto del Sahara Ennio Morricone Alberto Negrin
1996 Nostromo Ennio Morricone Alastair Reid
1997Incontri proibiti Piero Piccioni Alberto Sordi
2013 The Best Offer Ennio Morricone Giuseppe Tornatore

Notes

  1. Spaceagepop, Edda Dell'Orso
  2. Farino, Ernest (August 2020). "A Fistful of Pasta: The Italian Westerns of Sergio Leone". RetroFan. United States: TwoMorrows Publishing (10): 64.
  3. Internet Movie Database, Edda Dell'Orso

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