| Nora Orlandi | |
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 Orlandi in 2008 | |
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| Born | (1933-06-28)28 June 1933 Voghera, Italy |
| Died | 1 January 2025(2025-01-01) (aged 91) Rome, Italy |
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Nora Orlandi (28 June 1933 – 1 January 2025), also known as Joan Christian, was an Italian pianist, violinist, soprano vocalist, composer, and occasional actress.
Career
Orlandi was the founder of I 4+4 di Nora Orlandi, a vocal ensamble active on television, radio and films, and that collaborated as chorus with notable artists such as Adriano Celentano, Mina, Gianni Morandi, Lucio Battisti, Lucio Dalla, Domenico Modugno, Mia Martini and Gino Paoli. As the first female film composer of Italian cinema, she composed scores for Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films and gialli throughout the 1960s and was best known for "Dies Irae", a short piece she wrote and performed for Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971) which was later reused in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004).
Personal life and death
Her younger sister is the singer-songwriter Paola Orlandi.
Orlandi died in Rome on 1 January 2025, at the age of 91.
Select filmography
- Johnny Yuma (1966)
- Clint the Stranger (1967)
- Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre (1967)
- Death at Owell Rock (1967)
- The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
- $100,000 for a Killing (1968)
- Double Face (1969)
- The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)
References
- ^ Silenzi, Andrea (1 January 2025). "Nora Orlandi, morta a 91 anni la grande musicista fondatrice del coro 4+4". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- Eustachi, Paolo. "La prima storica compositrice italiana di musica per film – Intervista esclusiva a Nora Orlandi". colonnesonore.net. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- "Addio a Nora Orlandi, aveva 91 anni". Spettakolo!. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- Gracey, James. "The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh – Nora Orlandi". paracinema.net. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
External links
- Nora Orlandi at IMDb
- Nora Orlandi discography at Discogs