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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Christopher Plummer’s singing voice included in rerelease of Sound of Music soundtrack

Christopher Plummer in a scene from The Sound of Music
Christopher Plummer in a scene from The Sound of Music. Photograph: Cinetext/20th Century Fox/Allstar

Two years after his death at the age of 91, the voice of Christopher Plummer singing Edelweiss in The Sound of Music will finally be heard.

Plummer received vocal training for the part of Capt Von Trapp in the Oscar-winning 1965 movie but a singer, Bill Lee, was dubbed in for the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers.

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