In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the hauntingly beautiful soprano voice heard during the Osgiliath charge scene belongs to Ben Del Maestro, a boy soprano at the time of the recording. His vocals, featured in Howard Shore’s score, add a deeply emotional and spiritual layer to one of the film’s most tragic moments, where Faramir lead... See more
He’d religiously spend an hour every day before he went to the recording studio listening to classical music and to opera. His favorite singers were Richard Tucker and Lawrence Tibbett.