Nora Orlandi

Nora Orlandi
Orlandi in 2008
Background information
Born	(1933-06-28)28 June 1933 Voghera, Italy
Died	1 January 2025(2025-01-01) (aged 91) Rome, Italy
Genres	Film music easy listening lounge music
Occupations	Singer pianist composer

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

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.[1]

Orlandi died in Rome on 1 January 2025, at the age of 91.[2]

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)[3]

References

1. Eustachi, Paolo. "La prima storica compositrice italiana di musica per film – Intervista esclusiva a Nora Orlandi". colonnesonore.net. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
2. "Addio a Nora Orlandi, aveva 91 anni". Spettakolo!. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
3. 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