Milva
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Maria Ilva Biolcati known as Milva, is an Italian singer, actress and television personality. She is also known as 'La Rossa', (Italian for 'The Red'), due to the colour of her hair, and additionally as the 'Panther of Goro
', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birth places. The other two were Mina
, 'The Tiger of Cremona
', and Iva Zanicchi
, 'The Eagle of Ligonchio
'.
Popular in Italy and abroad, she has triumphed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and has received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany where she has often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes. She has also released numerous successful albums in France, Japan, Korea, Greece, Spain and South America.
Having received enormous success both in Italy and internationally, she remains to this day one of the most popular Italian personalities in the fields of music and theatre. Her artisic stature has been officially recognised by the Italian, German and French republics, each of which have bestowed her with the highest honours. She is the only Italian artist in contemporary times, in fact, who is simultaenously: Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic
(Paris
, 11 September 2009), Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
(Rome
, 2 June 2007), Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Berlin
, 2006 and Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
(Paris
, 1995).
, province of Ferrara
, Italy
.
In 1959, Milva won a contest for new voices, and was named the overall winner from more than seven thousand six hundred participants. In 1960 she recorded her first 7" single with Cetra Records
: Édith Piaf
's song "Milord
". Her real debut was on the stage of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961, where she took third place. She has competed at the Festival a total of 15 times, the last time of which was in 2007. The highest position she has reached is second place in 1962, but she has never won to date.
In 1965, a fortunate meeting led to a definitive change in her career: Italian director Giorgio Strehler
helped to develop her skills in staging and singing in Italian theatres (especially the Piccolo Teatro in Milan
) and she began to perform a more committed repertoire (songs of the Italian resistance movement
, songs from Bertolt Brecht
's pieces, etc.). In the following years she starred in Giorgio Strehler
's production of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera
which was performed in several cities of Western Europe
. Milva's albums were certificated gold and platinum in West Germany. In 2006 she was awarded with the First Class of the Bundesverdienstkreuz
In 1962 Milva was the first singer to sing Édith Piaf
's repertoire at the prestigious Olympia theatre
in Paris
. In 1983 she performed the repertoire at the venue again and again received an ovation from the audience and the French press, very surprised how a non-French artist could interpret with such a feeling and energy the songs of Piaf.
She is a highly eclectic
artist, performing both pop music
, opera
(in duet with Luciano Berio
), comedy
, drama
, TV shows (Al Paradise in 1983 won the Rose d'Or
of the Montreux Film Festival) and musical
s. She also occasionally appeared in some Italian movies of the 1960s, like La bellezza di Ippolita
with Gina Lollobrigida
. From 1973 to 1980, Milva is on tour (Italy, USA, Greece, France, Germany, Canada, Russia and Japan) with the band "I Milvi" composed by Neno Vinciguerra on piano, Franco Paganelli on guitar, Claudio Barontini on bass, Giovanni Martelli on drums and Marco Gasperetti on flute. The entire band becomes Livorno
"Black and Withe" when in concert joins the gospels of the New Folkstudio Singer composed Lois Cantor, Hazel Rogers Nat Bush, Eddie and Jesse Hawkins.
Her singing career has become more complex and various year by year, thanks to the collaboration with the European composers and musicians including Ennio Morricone
in 1965, Francis Lai
in 1973, Mikis Theodorakis
in 1978 (Was ich denke became a best selling album in Germany), Enzo Jannacci
in 1980, Vangelis
in 1981 and 1986, Franco Battiato
in 1982 and 1986.
Her stage productions of Bertolt Brecht's recitals and Luciano Berio
's operas have toured the world's theatres. She has performed at La Scala
in Milan
, at the Deutsche Oper
in Berlin
, at the Paris Opera, in the Royal Albert Hall
in London
, at the 1984 Summer Olympics
, at the Edinburgh Festival
, and others.
In 1984 she performed (with Ástor Piazzolla
) the show El tango in the Les Bouffes du Nord
Theatre in Paris
. This was the beginning of a collaboration, interpreting the nuevo tango
.
In 1997 her mentor Giorgio Strehler died. She temporarily reduced her theatre activities and focused on music only. She received new inspiration collaborating with Thanos Mikroutsikos
, James Last
and Shinji Tanimura
. Then she performed her fourteenth tour in Japan
.
Her 2004 CD and tour was dedicated to the Milanese poetess Alda Merini
to whose poetry the music was set.
Milva has a daughter named Martina born in the marriage with Maurizio Corgnati in the early 1960s.
contests in which Milva has entered. Milva has participated 15 times in the famous music festival, held annually, tying the record for most participations along with Peppino di Capri
and Toto Cutugno
.
NOTE: N.F. signifies that the song did not qualify for the main event.
s in which Milva has appeared or provided singing vocals for.
Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic
— Paris
, 11 September 2009
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
— Rome
, 2 June 2007
Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — Berlin
, 2006
Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
— Paris
, 1995
Discography
Biographies
Filmography
Goro, Italy
Goro is a comune in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 80 km northeast of Bologna and about 50 km east of Ferrara, near the mouth of the Po River....
', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birth places. The other two were Mina
Mina (singer)
Anna Maria Quaini, Grand Officer , known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer. She was a staple of Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an...
, 'The Tiger of Cremona
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
', and Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi is an Italian pop singer.Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festival of New Voices, where she gained third place. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with Zingara and again in 1974 with Ciao cara, come stai?...
, 'The Eagle of Ligonchio
Ligonchio
Ligonchio is a comune in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 80 km west of Bologna and about 50 km southwest of Reggio Emilia...
'.
Popular in Italy and abroad, she has triumphed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and has received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany where she has often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes. She has also released numerous successful albums in France, Japan, Korea, Greece, Spain and South America.
Having received enormous success both in Italy and internationally, she remains to this day one of the most popular Italian personalities in the fields of music and theatre. Her artisic stature has been officially recognised by the Italian, German and French republics, each of which have bestowed her with the highest honours. She is the only Italian artist in contemporary times, in fact, who is simultaenously: Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic
Légion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
(Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 11 September 2009), Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...
(Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, 2 June 2007), Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, 2006 and Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...
(Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1995).
Biography
Maria Ilva Biolcati was born in GoroGoro, Italy
Goro is a comune in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 80 km northeast of Bologna and about 50 km east of Ferrara, near the mouth of the Po River....
, province of Ferrara
Province of Ferrara
The Province of Ferrara is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ferrara.It has an area of 2,632 km², about two thirds of the area of the U.S. State of Rhode Island, and a total population of about 350,000 . There are 26 comuni in the province , see...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
In 1959, Milva won a contest for new voices, and was named the overall winner from more than seven thousand six hundred participants. In 1960 she recorded her first 7" single with Cetra Records
Cetra
Cetra Records was an Italian company which produced opera recordings from the 1930s onwards. Its roster of artists included Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Lina Pagliughi, Ebe Stignani, Carlo Bergonzi, Galliano Masini, Giovanni Malipiero, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Tagliabue, Rolando Panerai,...
: Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
's song "Milord
Milord (song)
"Milord" or "Ombre de la Rue" is a 1959 song , famously sung by Édith Piaf. It is a chanson that recounts the feelings of a lower-class "girl of the port" who develops a crush on an elegantly attired apparent upper-class British traveller , whom she has seen walking the streets of the...
". Her real debut was on the stage of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961, where she took third place. She has competed at the Festival a total of 15 times, the last time of which was in 2007. The highest position she has reached is second place in 1962, but she has never won to date.
In 1965, a fortunate meeting led to a definitive change in her career: Italian director Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...
helped to develop her skills in staging and singing in Italian theatres (especially the Piccolo Teatro in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
) and she began to perform a more committed repertoire (songs of the Italian resistance movement
Italian resistance movement
The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...
, songs from Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
's pieces, etc.). In the following years she starred in Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...
's production of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
which was performed in several cities of Western Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Milva's albums were certificated gold and platinum in West Germany. In 2006 she was awarded with the First Class of the Bundesverdienstkreuz
Bundesverdienstkreuz
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has existed since 7 September 1951, and between 3,000 and 5,200 awards are given every year across all classes...
In 1962 Milva was the first singer to sing Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
's repertoire at the prestigious Olympia theatre
Paris Olympia
The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber....
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In 1983 she performed the repertoire at the venue again and again received an ovation from the audience and the French press, very surprised how a non-French artist could interpret with such a feeling and energy the songs of Piaf.
She is a highly eclectic
Eclecticism
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.It can sometimes seem inelegant or...
artist, performing both pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
(in duet with Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
), comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
, drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, TV shows (Al Paradise in 1983 won the Rose d'Or
Rose d'Or
The Rose d’Or is one of the most important international festivals in entertainment television. It was founded in Montreux in 1961 and has taken place in Lucerne since 2004. Producers, executives from independent and public service broadcasters and heads of production companies from over 40...
of the Montreux Film Festival) and musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
s. She also occasionally appeared in some Italian movies of the 1960s, like La bellezza di Ippolita
La bellezza di Ippolita
La bellezza di Ippolita is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Giancarlo Zagni. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida - Ippolita* Enrico Maria Salerno - Luca* Milva - Adriana* Lars Bloch...
with Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...
. From 1973 to 1980, Milva is on tour (Italy, USA, Greece, France, Germany, Canada, Russia and Japan) with the band "I Milvi" composed by Neno Vinciguerra on piano, Franco Paganelli on guitar, Claudio Barontini on bass, Giovanni Martelli on drums and Marco Gasperetti on flute. The entire band becomes Livorno
Livorno
Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...
"Black and Withe" when in concert joins the gospels of the New Folkstudio Singer composed Lois Cantor, Hazel Rogers Nat Bush, Eddie and Jesse Hawkins.
Her singing career has become more complex and various year by year, thanks to the collaboration with the European composers and musicians including Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
in 1965, Francis Lai
Francis Lai
Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene...
in 1973, Mikis Theodorakis
Mikis Theodorakis
Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
in 1978 (Was ich denke became a best selling album in Germany), Enzo Jannacci
Enzo Jannacci
Vincenzo Jannacci , more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci , is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor and stand-up comedian...
in 1980, Vangelis
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
in 1981 and 1986, Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
in 1982 and 1986.
Her stage productions of Bertolt Brecht's recitals and Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
's operas have toured the world's theatres. She has performed at La Scala
La Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, at the Deutsche Oper
Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. The resident building is also home to the Berlin State Ballet.-History:...
in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, at the Paris Opera, in the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
, at the Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
, and others.
In 1984 she performed (with Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
) the show El tango in the Les Bouffes du Nord
Bouffes du Nord
The Bouffes du Nord is a theater at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord. It is registered as a historic monument.-History:...
Theatre in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. This was the beginning of a collaboration, interpreting the nuevo tango
Nuevo tango
Tango Nuevo - either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional Argentine tango, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s...
.
In 1997 her mentor Giorgio Strehler died. She temporarily reduced her theatre activities and focused on music only. She received new inspiration collaborating with Thanos Mikroutsikos
Thanos Mikroutsikos
Athanasios Mikroutsikos was born in Patras, Greece and is one of the leading composers of popular and classical music in his home country. He studied music theory and piano at the Patras Philharmonic Society and at the Greek Conservatory and continued under Yiannis A. Papaioannou...
, James Last
James Last
James Last is a German composer and big band leader. His "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and the United Kingdom. His composition, "Happy Heart", became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark...
and Shinji Tanimura
Shinji Tanimura
is a Japanese singer and songwriter.- Biography :In 1971, Tanimura set up the musical group, Alice, along with Takao Horiuchi, and in 1972 produced his first extended play musical album. Two years later, they produced their first album from the musical group...
. Then she performed her fourteenth tour in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Her 2004 CD and tour was dedicated to the Milanese poetess Alda Merini
Alda Merini
Alda Merini was a renowned Italian writer and poet.She was born in Milan and died there aged 78.Alda Merini started her poetic career when she was really young and soon she gained the attention and the admiration of many famous italian writers, like Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo and Pier...
to whose poetry the music was set.
Milva has a daughter named Martina born in the marriage with Maurizio Corgnati in the early 1960s.
Studio albums
- 14 Successi di Milva (1961)
- Milva canta per voi (1962)
- Le Canzoni del Tabarin - Canzoni da Cortile (1963)
- Canti della libertà (1965)
- Milva (1966)
- Milva (1967)
- Tango (1968)
- Angeli in bandiera (1969, with Gino Bramieri)
- Un sorriso (1969)
- Milva singt Tangos deutsch und italienisch (1969)
- Ritratto di Milva (1970)
- Milva Canta Brecht (1971)
- Dedicato a Milva da Ennio MorriconeEnnio MorriconeEnnio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
(1972) - Love Feeling in Japan (ミルバ日本の愛を歌う) (Milva, Nippon no ai o utau) (1972)
- Sognavo, amore mio (1973, lyrics and music by Francis Lai)
- Sono matta da legare (1974)
- Libertà (1975)
- Milva Brecht Volume 2 (1975)
- Auf den Flügeln bunter Träume (1977)
- Milva (1977)
- Von Tag zu Tag (1978, with Mikis TheodorakisMikis TheodorakisMikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
) - La Mia Età (1979, with Mikis Theodorakis)
- Was ich denke (1979)
- Wenn wir uns wiederseh'n (1979)
- Attends la vie (1980)
- La rossa (1980, with Enzo JannacciEnzo JannacciVincenzo Jannacci , more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci , is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor and stand-up comedian...
) - Milva International (1980)
- Ich hab' keine Angst (1981, with VangelisVangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
) - Moi, je n'ai pas peur (1981, with Vangelis)
- Immer mehr (1982)
- Milva e dintorni (1982, with Franco BattiatoFranco BattiatoFrancesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
) - Milva e dintorni (1982, French version with Franco Battiato)
- Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger (1983)
- Identikit (1983)
- Unverkennbar (1983)
- Corpo a corpo (1985)
- Mut zum Risiko (1985)
- Geheimnisse (1986, with Vangelis)
- Tra due sogni (1986, with Vangelis)
- Milva Canta Della Giapponesi (1987)
- Milva - Vento di Mezzanotte (1988)
- Unterwegs nach Morgen (1988, written by Tony CareyTony CareyAntony Laurence Carey is a keyboard player best known for his work with Rainbow.One of his earliest musical experiences was in a band called Blessings, in which he played until 1975 when Ritchie Blackmore discovered and hired him as keyboardist for Rainbow. He played with Rainbow on two world...
& Peter MaffayPeter MaffayPeter Alexander Makkay better known as Peter Maffay is a German musician.- Biography :Born in Brasov, Romania, the son of a German , he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' Germany in 1963. In the same year, he started his first band, The Dukes...
) - The Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
(1989) as Pirate Jenny - Svegliando l'amante che dorme (1989, with Franco Battiato, Italian version)
- Una storia inventata (1989, with Franco Battiato, German version)
- Una historia inventada (1989, with Franco Battiato, Spanish version)
- Ein Kommen und Gehen (1990)
- Gefühl & Verstand (1991)
- Milva History 1960–1990 (1992)
- Uomini addosso (1993)
- Café Chantant (1994)
- La storia di Zaza (1994)
- Milva & James Last — Dein ist mein ganzes HerzDein ist mein ganzes Herz"Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" is a song from the operetta Das Land des Lächelns with music by the Hungarian composer Franz Lehar and words by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Ludwig Herzer...
(1994) - Volpe d'amore (Milva sings Thanos Mikroutsikos) (1994)
- Tausendundeine Nacht (1995)
- Fammi Luce — Milva ha incontrato Shinji (Tanimura) (1996)
- Milva Canta un Nuovo Brecht (1996)
- Mia Bella Napoli (1997)
- Stark sein (1999)
- Artisti (2001)
- La chanson française (2004)
- Milva canta Merini (2004, lyrics by Alda MeriniAlda MeriniAlda Merini was a renowned Italian writer and poet.She was born in Milan and died there aged 78.Alda Merini started her poetic career when she was really young and soon she gained the attention and the admiration of many famous italian writers, like Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo and Pier...
, music by Giovanni Nuti) - In territorio nemico (2007, lyrics and music by Giorgio FalettiGiorgio FalettiGiorgio Faletti is an Italian writer, actor and singer-songwriter. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he currently resides in Elba Island....
) - Non conosco nessun Patrizio (2010, music by Franco Battiato)
- La variante di Lüneburg (2011)
Live albums
- Da Il Cantatutto con Milva e Villa (1963)
- Milva-Villa live in Japan (1968)
- Milva on Stage — Live in TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
at Serkey Hall (1970) - Milva in Seoul (Live, 1972)
- Canzoni Tra Le Due Guerre (1978)
- Das Konzert (1982)
- Milva & Ástor Piazzolla — Live at the Bouffes du Nord (1984)
- Das Beste Milva Live (1988)
- Milva Dramatic Recital (Best Live in Japan) (1992)
- El Tango de Ástor Piazzolla live in Japan (1998)
- Live and More (1988, Milva Collectors' Club, limited edition album)
VHS video releases
- El tango: Milva and Ástor Piazzolla (Live at the Bouffes du Nord, 1984) (Seven Seas KIVM 242) (1998) (Japan)
- Das beste Milva live - In Concert (Metronome CDV 080534-1) (CDV, 1988) / Metronome VHS 080648-3 (VHS, 1988)
- Canzoni tra le due guerre (Ricordi 800648-3) (1989)
- Video rai Alta Classe Milva (1992)
- Milva canta Brecht BMG Ariola 74321 91723 3 (VHS, 2002)
- Artisti BMG Ariola 74321 91723 3 (VHS, 2002)
DVD video releases
- Artisti - Das Beste von gestern und heute (BMG Ariola 74321 91723 9) (DVD, 2004)
- Milva canta Merini (Live in Milan al Piccolo Teatro) (Nar International NARDV 10205 9) (DVD, 2005)
- El Tango - Live in Barcelona (DVD)
- El Tango de Ástor Piazzolla (& tangoseis, Concierto - Palau de la Musica Junio de 2005 Barcelona) (Unicas NR 005) (DVD, 2006)
- Milva canta Brecht (BMG Ariola 74321 91723 9) (DVD, 2009)
Songs
- 1960 Flamenco Rock
- 1960 Les Enfants du Pirée (Uno a te, uno a me)
- 1960 MilordMilord (song)"Milord" or "Ombre de la Rue" is a 1959 song , famously sung by Édith Piaf. It is a chanson that recounts the feelings of a lower-class "girl of the port" who develops a crush on an elegantly attired apparent upper-class British traveller , whom she has seen walking the streets of the...
- 1960 Arlecchino gitano
- 1961 Il mare nel cassetto
- 1961 Al di la
- 1961 Tango della gelosia
- 1961 Venise que j'aime by Jean CocteauJean CocteauJean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
- 1961 Il primo mattino del mondo
- 1961 Et maintenant
- 1962 Tango italiano
- 1962 Quattro vestiti by Ennio Morricone
- 1962 Stanotte al luna park
- 1962 La risposta della novia
- 1962 Abat-jour
- 1963 Ricorda
- 1963 Non sapevo
- 1963 Balocchi e Profumi
- 1963 Tango delle capinere
- 1965 Bella ciao
- 1966 Nessuno di voi
- 1966 Blue Spanish Eyes
- 1966 Little Man
- 1966 Tamburino, ciao
- 1967 Dipingi un mondo per me
- 1967 Love Is A Feeling (Co-composed by Pino Donaggio) / Seasons Of Love (UK Major Minor MM510 Sung in English)
- 1968 Canzone by Don BackyDon BackyDon Backy, real name — Aldo Caponi, is an Italian singer and author. He collaborated with Sofia Rotaru for "Grey Bird" - Ukrainian version of Italian song "L'immensità".-External links:*...
- 1969 Un Sorriso
- 1970 Iptissam
- 1970 Canzoni di Edith Piaf
- 1971 Surabaya Johnny
- 1971 La Filanda (her best selling song ever)
- 1972 È per colpa tua
- 1973 Da troppo tempo
- 1974 Monica delle bambole
- 1977 Non piangere più Argentina by Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
- 1978 Zusammenleben by Mikis TheodorakisMikis TheodorakisMikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
- 1979 Typisch Mann
- 1979 Libertà (Freiheit in meiner Sprache)
- 1980 La Rossa by Enzo JannacciEnzo JannacciVincenzo Jannacci , more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci , is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor and stand-up comedian...
- 1981 Alexanderplatz by Franco Battiato
- 1981 Poggibonsi by Franco Battiato
- 1981 Ich hab keine Angst by Vangelis
- 1981 Du hast es gut
- 1982 Immer mehr
- 1982 Wieder mal
- 1983 Hurra, wir leben noch
- 1985 Die Kraft unserer Liebe
- 1985 Nein ich ergeb mich nicht
- 1985 Marinero
- 1986 Du gibst mir mehr (Canto a Lloret)
- 1988 Wenn der Wind sich dreht
- 1988 Komm zurück zu mir
- 1989 Potemkin by Franco Battiato
- 1990 Sono felice
- 1990 Ein Kommen und Gehen
- 1992 Ich weiß es selber nicht genau
- 1993 Mein Weg mit dir
- 1993 Uomini addosso
- 1994 Caruso by Lucio DallaLucio DallaLucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...
- 1995 Tausendundeine Nacht
- 1995 Flauten & Stürme
- 1998 Rinascerò by Ástor PiazzollaÁstor PiazzollaÁstor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
- 2004 Sona Nata il 21 a Primavera by Alda Merini and Giovanni Nuti
- 2004 I Sandali by Alda Merini and Giovanni Nuti
- 2007 The Show Must Go On (lyrics and music by Giorgio FalettiGiorgio FalettiGiorgio Faletti is an Italian writer, actor and singer-songwriter. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he currently resides in Elba Island....
) - 2007 Jacques
Sanremo Music Festival
This is a chronologically-ordered list of Sanremo Music FestivalFestival della canzone italiana
The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...
contests in which Milva has entered. Milva has participated 15 times in the famous music festival, held annually, tying the record for most participations along with Peppino di Capri
Peppino di Capri
Peppino di Capri is an Italian popular music singer, songwriter and pianist. His international hits are: "St...
and Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician.-Biography:Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia ....
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| Year | Song | Partner | Composer | Place | ||||||||||
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| 1961 | "Il mare nel cassetto" | Gino Latilla | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1962 | "Tango italiano" | Sergio Bruni | 2 | |||||||||||
| 1962 | "Stanotte al Luna Park" | Miriam del Mare | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1963 | "Ricorda" | Luciano Tajoli | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1963 | "Non sapevo" | Gianni Lecommare | 10 | |||||||||||
| 1964 | "L'ultimo tram" | Frida Boccara Frida Boccara Frida Boccara was a French singer.Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She submitted the song "Autrefois" to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel in 1964 but she was unsuccessful... |
N.F. | |||||||||||
| 1965 | "Vieni con noi" | Bernd Spier Bernd Spier Bernd Spier is a German schlager singer and record producer. He is now a real estate broker.- Biography :Spier was born in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg and is the son of Robby Spier, who was the conductor of the Hessischer Rundfunk orchestra in Frankfurt. Spier started his first band with two friends... |
12 | |||||||||||
| 1966 | "Nessuno di voi" | Richard Anthony | 9 | |||||||||||
| 1967 | "Uno come noi" | Los Bravos | N.F. | |||||||||||
| 1968 | "Canzone" | Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"... |
3 | |||||||||||
| 1969 | "Un sorriso" | Don Backy | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1972 | "Mediterraneo" | — | 12 | |||||||||||
| 1973 | "Da troppo tempo" | — | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1974 | "Monica delle bambole" | — | 4 ‡ | |||||||||||
| 1990 | "Sono felice" | — | 4 ‡ | |||||||||||
| 1993 | "Uomini addosso" | — | N.F. | |||||||||||
| 2007 | "The Show Must Go On" | — | 16 | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes that Milva entered the contest as a soloist. "‡" Denotes a tie. | ||||||||||||||
NOTE: N.F. signifies that the song did not qualify for the main event.
Filmography
This is a chronologically-ordered list of filmFilm
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s in which Milva has appeared or provided singing vocals for.
| Year | Title | Character | Director | Movie Studio | Notes | Ref |
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| 1962 | Canzoni a tempo di twist (Italy: Original title) | Stefano Canzio | Europa | Film | ||
| 1962 | La bellezza di Ippolita La bellezza di Ippolita La bellezza di Ippolita is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Giancarlo Zagni. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida - Ippolita* Enrico Maria Salerno - Luca* Milva - Adriana* Lars Bloch... aka "Die schöne Ippolite" (Austria / Germany: German title) aka "La belleza de Hipólita" (Argentina / Spain: Spanish title) aka "I oraia amartoli" (Greece: Greek title) aka "La beauté d'Hippolyte" (France: French title) aka "O erotas kai i gynaika" (Greece: Greek: reissue title) aka "She Got What She Asked For" (UK: English title) aka "The Beautiful Ippolita" (undefined: English title) |
Adriana | Giancarlo Zagni | Film, co-starring with Gina Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the... . |
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| 1962 | Appuntamento in Riviera Appuntamento in Riviera Appuntamento in Riviera is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Tony Renis.It contains the original hit song "Quando, Quando, Quando", performed by one of its writers, Tony Renis.-Cast:* Tony Renis - Tony... (Italy: Original title) |
Singing voice | Mario Mattoli | Serena Film | Film | |
| 1972 | D'amore si muore (Italy: Original title) aka "For Love One Dies" International (English title) aka "De amor se muere" (Spain: Spanish title) |
Leyla | Carlo Carunchio | Clesi Cinematografica | Film | |
| 1982 | Via degli specchi Via degli specchi Via degli specchi is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Giovanna Gagliardo. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Nicole Garcia as Francesca* Milva as Veronica* Heinz Bennent as Gianfranco... (Italy: Original title) "Die Straße der Spiegel" (Germany: German title) "La rue des miroirs" (France: French title) "O dromos ton dolofonon" (Greece: Greek title) "Street of Mirrors" (English title) |
Veronica | Giovanna Gagliardo | Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) Tangram Film |
Film, co-starring with Claudio Bigagli Claudio Bigagli Claudio Bigagli is an Italian actor. He has appeared in 43 films and television shows since 1976. He starred in Fiorile, which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:... and Nicole Garcia Nicole Garcia Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and writer. Her film Selon Charlie was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Actress:*1968: Des garçons et des filles directed by Étienne Périer... |
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| 1986 | Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister -Synopsis:Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister... (France: Original title) aka "My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister" (International: English title) aka "They've Killed Her!" (UK: festival title) |
Renata Palozzi | Jacques Rouffio | Cinéproduction France 3 Cinéma Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont |
Film, co-starring with Michel Serrault Michel Serrault Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :... and Michel Piccoli |
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| 1988 | "Wherever You Are..." "Au-delà du vertige" (France: French title) "Gdzieskolwiek jest, jeslis jest" (Poland: Polish title) "Onde Quer que Estejas" (Portugal: Portuguese title) "Wo immer du bist" (Germany: German title) |
Italian diplomat's wife | Krzysztof Zanussi | AAA Classic (1989) (France) (English with subtitles) Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu (ACFK) (Czech Republic) Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies... (USA) |
Film, starring Julian Sands Julian Sands Julian M. Sands is an English actor, known for his roles in the Best Picture nominee The Killing Fields, the cult film Warlock, A Room with a View, Arachnophobia, Vatel, the television series 24 and as Jor-El in the television series Smallville.-Career:Sands began his film career appearing in... |
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| 1988 | Prisonnières (France: Original title) aka "Women in Prison" (International: English title) |
Lucie Germon | Charlotte Silvera | Capital Cinéma | Film | |
| 1991 | Amaurose (Germany: Original title) | Dieter Funk | TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) |
Film | ||
| 1995 | Celluloid Celluloide (film) Celluloide is a 1996 Italian film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The story revolves around the making of the Roberto Rosselini film Rome, Open City... aka "Celluloide" (Italy: Original title) aka "Celuloide" (Argentina: Spanish title) |
Carlo Lizzani | Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video) Civite Films (Spain) Primer Plano Film Group (Argentina) |
Film, starring Giancarlo Giannini Giancarlo Giannini Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and dubber.Giannini was born La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in 1965... and Massimo Ghini Massimo Ghini Massimo Ghini is an Italian actor. He has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Gabriele Lavia, among others. He is married to actress Nancy Brilli, and is the father of four children.... |
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Honours
Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French RepublicLégion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
— Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 11 September 2009
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...
— Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, 2 June 2007
Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, 2006
Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des LettresOrdre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...
— Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1995
See also
- List of Italian actresses
- List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name
- List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- The Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
- Sanremo Music FestivalFestival della canzone italianaThe Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...
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