Nora Orlandi
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| Born | 28 June 1933 |
| 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
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.[1] The group, with Orlandi performing wordless vocals, performed on many film scores by composers such as Stelvio Cipriani, Carlo Savina, Piero Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli, Fred Bongusto and Piero Umiliani.[2][3][4] 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).[1]
Personal life and death
Orlandi died from cardiac arrest in Rome on 1 January 2025, at the age of 91.[5]
Her younger sister was the singer-songwriter Paola Orlandi, who died less than two months after Nora on 25 February 2025.[6][7]
Select filmography
- Johnny Yuma (1966)
- Clint the Stranger (1967)
- Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre (1967)
- Death at Owell Rock (1967)
- Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
- The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
- Double Face (1969)
- The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)[8]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Cipriani a Master of All Genres and Profoundly Moving Music". Musique Fantastique. October 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ^ "La dove non batte il sole - Un animale chiamato... uomo". Beat Records Company. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
- ^ "Piero Piccioni - Swept Away (Original Soundtrack)". Plaid Room Records. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
- ^ "Addio a Nora Orlandi, aveva 91 anni". Spettakolo!. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- ^ Eustachi, Paolo. "La prima storica compositrice italiana di musica per film – Intervista esclusiva a Nora Orlandi". colonnesonore.net. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Farewell to Paola Orlandi, unforgettable voice of Rai and chorister to the stars". Ildenaro. 26 February 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ^ Gracey, James. "The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh – Nora Orlandi". paracinema.net. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
External links
- Nora Orlandi at IMDb
- Nora Orlandi discography at Discogs