Nora Orlandi (born 28 June 1933; pseudonym: Joan Christian) is an Italian pianist, violinist,

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

vocalist, composer and occasional actress. As the first

female Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gamet ...

film composer of Italian cinema, she composed scores for Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films and

gialli In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, l ...

throughout the 1960s and is 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 Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue, profanity, Black comedy, dark humor, Nonlinear narrative, non-lin ...

's '' Kill Bill: Volume 2'' (2004). Her younger sister is the singer-songwriter Paola Orlandi.

Select filmography

* '' Johnny Yuma'' (1966) * ''

Clint the Stranger ''Clint the Stranger'', also known as ''Clint the Nevada's Loner'', ''Nevada Clint'' and ''Clint, the Lonely Nevadan'' (in original Italian, ''Clint il solitario''), is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western starring George Martin (Spanish actor), Geo ...

'' (1967) * ''

Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre ''10.000 dollari per un massacro'' (internationally released as ''$10.000 Blood Money'' and ''Guns of Violence'') is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Romolo Guerrieri. The film was one of the unofficial sequels of '' Django'', a ...

'' (1967) * '' Death at Owell Rock'' (1967) * ''

The Sweet Body of Deborah ''The Sweet Body of Deborah'' ( it, Il dolce corpo di Deborah) is a 1968 ''giallo'' film directed by Romolo Girolami and starring Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel. It was written by Ernesto Gastaldi based on a story by Gastaldi and producer Luciano ...

'' (1968) * ''

$100,000 for a Killing ''Per 100.000 dollari ti ammazzo'' (literally ''I will kill you for 100,000 dollars'' or ''100,000 dollars for killing you'', internationally released as ''Vengeance is Mine'', ''For One Hundred Thousand Dollars for a Killing'' and ''One Hundred T ...

'' (1968) * ''

Double Face ''Double Face'' ( it, A doppia faccia, german: Das Gesicht im Dunkeln/ translation: ''The Face in the Dark'') is a 1969 thriller film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Klaus Kinski, Christiane Krüger and Annabella Incontrera. It is part ...

'' (1969) * '' The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh'' (1971)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlandi, Nora 1933 births Italian film score composers Women film score composers Spaghetti Western composers Easy listening musicians Living people Italian women singers