Nora Orlandi
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| Born | 28 June 1933 Voghera, Italy |
| Died | 1 January 2025 (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
[edit]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
[edit]Her younger sister is the singer-songwriter Paola Orlandi.[1]
Orlandi died in Rome on 1 January 2025, at the age of 91.[2]
Select filmography
[edit]- 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)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Nora Orlandi at IMDb
- Nora Orlandi discography at Discogs
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