Mondo cane riz ortolani biography
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Strongly artistic, multifaceted, innovative, can best describe Riz Ortolani’s personality, composer and orchestra director with a production background that spans from the cinema to the theatre, from classical music to television programs.
Not yet twenty, after graduating from the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, his city, he moved to Rome, where he joined a group of young instrumentalists of the RAI orchestra.
He soon stood out to the company managers, who assigned him to direct a jazz-symphony orchestra, resulting in immediate popularity.
His movie career started in 1962 with the sound track for the Mondo Cane documentary.
Mondo cane riz ortolani biography
The main song in the movie, More, sung by Katyna Ranieri (his wife), results in an Oscar Nomination in 1964 as “Best Theme Song” and wins the Grammy Award as “Best Instrumental Theme”. More was recorded by more than one thousand of the greatest artists in the world with 70 million records sold.
Ortolani was the fist Italian musician to receive suc