Milva

Maria Ilva Biolcati, (17 July 1939 – 23 April 2021), known as Milva, was an Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality. She was also known as La Rossa (Italian for "The Redhead"), due to the characteristic colour of her hair, and additionally as La Pantera di Goro ("The Panther of Goro"), which stemmed 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 colour also characterised her leftist political beliefs, claimed in numerous statements. Popular in Italy and abroad, she performed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany and Japan, where she often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes. She released numerous albums in France, Japan, Korea, Greece, Spain, and South America. She collaborated with 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, and Franco Battiato in 1982, 1986 and 2010. Her stage productions of Bertolt Brecht's recitals and Luciano Berio's operas toured the world's theatres. She performed at La Scala in Milan, at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at the Paris Opera, in the Royal Albert Hall in London and at the Edinburgh Festival, amongst others. Having had success both in Italy and internationally, she remained one of the most popular Italian personalities in the fields of music and theatre. Her artistic stature was officially recognised by the Italian, German and French Republics, each of which bestowed her with the highest honours. She was the only Italian artist in contemporary times who was simultaneously: 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). Maria Ilva Biolcati was born in Goro, Province of Ferrara, Italy, on 17 July 1939. In 1959, when she was twenty, she 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 live debut was on the stage of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961, where she took third place. 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 feeling and energy the songs of Piaf. Music critics named her singer of the year. ... Source: Article "Milva" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Goro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1939-07-17

Died: 2021-04-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Canzoni a tempo di Twist		0
2	1962	Appuntamento in Riviera	Sé stessa	50
3	1962	La bellezza di Ippolita	Adriana	52
4	1972	For Love One Dies	Leyla	0
5	1983	Street of Mirrors	Veronica	50
6	1986	My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister	Renata Palozzi	44
7	1988	Wherever You Are...		54
8	1988	Women in Prison	Lucie Germon	38
9	1995	Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices	Herself	68
10	1996	Celluloide	Countess	66
11	2002	Kurt Weill		0
12	2005	Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala		0
13	2011	30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente		0
14	2024	Milva, diva per sempre	Herself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
2	1957	Aktuelle Schaubude	Self	60
3	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
4	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
5	1968	Starparade	Self	0
6	1969	Die ZDF-Hitparade	Self	0
7	1970	Drei mal neun	Self	70
8	1971	Mai di sabato, signora Lisistrata	Lisistrata	0
9	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self	80
10	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
11	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
12	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18
13	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
14	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
15	1975	Feuerabend	Self	0
16	1976	Domenica In	Self	0
17	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
18	1977	Please Turn the Page	Self	60
19	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
20	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
21	1979	Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren	Self	0
22	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
23	1980	Show-Express	Self	0
24	1981	Tag des deutschen Schlagers	herself	0
25	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
26	1981	Musikantenstadl	Self	0
27	1981	Bananas	Self	35
28	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
29	1982	Na sowas!	Self	10
30	1983	Bei Bio	Self	0
31	1985	Melodien für Millionen	Self	0
32	1987	Na siehste!	Self	0
33	1988	Flitterabend	Self - Singer	0
34	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
35	1994	Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen	Self	0
36	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
37	1999	Show Palast	Self	0
38	1999	Beckmann	Self	20
39	2001	Die Stunde der Stars	Self	0
40	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
41	2010	Musikalische Reise	Self	0
42	2020	TV Story Superstar	Self (archive footage)	0

Milva

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