As announced by the family, he died in hospital after a short illness
Nicoletta Orsomando, former television announcer and popular face of Rai, died in the night in Rome at the age of 92. Sources of the family report this. The funeral will take place on Monday at 10.15 in the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. To announce the news on Twitter was the nephew of Nicoletta Orsomando, Giacomo Olivi.
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Nicoletta Orsomando appeared in the homes of the few privileged Italians who owned a television on 22 October 1953 to present, on an experimental basis, a documentary from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Later he conducted Cineselection, some episodes of L’amico degli animali and for a certain period Seven days in parliament. was the RAI announcer par excellence, the personification of Miss Good Evening. The serene face, the imperturbable smile, the perfect diction, the discreet elegance have conquered the audience of viewers. Over the years, he has also conducted some entertainment columns and has participated as a guest on numerous programs. For 40 years (she retired on November 20, 1993) she remained faithful to her role; by choice and above all by compulsion. It is said that the director Willy De Luca did not promote her to rank and to other positions because she lacks saints in heaven. But Achille Campanile wrote the perfect epigraph for her: To say her virtues, a smile is enough … Orsomando’s belongs to the witty and mischievous genre.
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She was born in Casapulla, commune in the province of Caserta, she moved as a child to Mazzarino then to Lavello, the city of which her father Giovanni, a well-known composer, directed the symphonic band; subsequently the family moved to Littoria (now Latina) and finally, in 1937, to Rome. At the beginning of the new century, Rai retired the “good evening ladies”. Apart from the golden age of the origins (when many spectators were convinced that the announcer was addressing them and only them, arousing impulses and endless marriage proposals), apart from the notoriety, it must not have been a job of great satisfaction. The lament of the announcers was a sad long-standing anniversary, since the time of Fulvia Colombo who, as an announcer, always had the air of announcing a misfortune. Orsomando no, she never complained in public. The great Achille Campanile had surrounded them with enchanting humor: announcers, girls who have the ability to make themselves famous in series, by smiling at everyone. Easy prey of the duck and satire, the “good evening ladies” have carried out an important task: they were the embodiment of the company, a friendly and reassuring face, a regular guest of the family. When they announced a live broadcast, they were careful to make us understand, ontologically, that the broadcast belonged only to TV and not to life, as happens today. Angelo Guglielmi understood everything about them and, for Raitre, in 1979 he decided to use them in black and white and in quotation marks. How do you do with quotes.
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Orsomando participated, in the role of herself, also in some films “Piccola posta”, directed by Steno, which starred Alberto Sordi and Franca Valeri, “Tot leaves or doubles?” by Camillo Mastrocinque (1956), “Parenti serpenti” by Mario Monicelli, while she was intent on announcing “Fantastico”. In the first episode of Roberto Benigni’s “Onda libero” (1976) Orsomando is interrupted by an irreverent raspberry and the disconcerted image of the good evening lady is superimposed on that of Cioni who, accompanying himself with the guitar, sings the March of the angry ones. In 2008 she presented the show “Viva Radio2 Minuti”, hosted by Fiorello, who had jokingly imitated her in the promos of the show and who also had her imitated by other famous characters in the intros of subsequent episodes (among others Jovanotti, Christian De Sica , Laura Pausini, Simona Ventura, Biagio Antonacci). More than announcements, Nicoletta Orsomando’s were a liturgy, a promise of happiness, like the opening credits of a good film.
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