David Guido Pietroni
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David Guido Pietroni is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
) is an Italian director and producer.
Biography
He started working as a promoter and tour managerTour Manager
A tour manager is the person who helps to organize the administration for a schedule of appearances of a musical group or artist at a sequence of venues .-Background:...
for Italian singers. Among them we count Enrico Ruggeri, Massimo Di Cataldo, Gianluca Grignani, Marco Masini, Massimo Riva, and Eros Ramazzotti.
After years of personal and professional satisfactions in the music market, David Guido Pietroni shifted his attention to the movies, trying to combine his passion for the two arts into one single job.
The opportunity to have music and the movies meet arrived thanks to his collaboration with Compay Segundo
Compay Segundo
Compay Segundo was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer.-Biography:...
, protagonist of one of the most important movie and home video music projects of all times: Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s...
produced in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
by Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...
and directed by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
with masterly skill.
After exploring for a long time the most important music places of the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
island, David G. Pietroni came back to Italy and devoted him to new artistic languages between music and the movies which will go with him from now on.
In 2002 thanks to the “Arturo Toscanini Foundation” David Guido Pietroni is the producer of Rigoletto, directed by Vittorio Sgarbi and with costumes by Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
. Represented in Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili...
in Siena (Italy) with an audience of thirty two thousand people, Rigoletto is the biggest Italian opera event of that year.
From the live shooting of the show the opera David Guido Pietroni produced the DVD entitled Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story is a film version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto . Filmed in Siena in 2002 , it was directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by David Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De Santis.Rigoletto Story has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories...
. Presented at the Venice Screenings within the Venice Biennale in 2004, the DVD is distributed worldwide by Columbia TriStar and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story is a film version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto . Filmed in Siena in 2002 , it was directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by David Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De Santis.Rigoletto Story has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories...
has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories “Best Surround Sound” and “Best Long Form Music Video”, having David Guido Pietroni become voting member of the Recording Academy.
He works with the Alderman for Culture of Milan Vittorio Sgarbi, with whom he has been collaborating since 1990. Together with Sgarbi he has planned the season of the Arcimboldi Theater in Milan, the prestigious theater which has hosted the shows of La Scala Theater for three years, during its restoration works.
That year the Arcimboldi Theater became, together with La Scala Theater
La Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
, the main protagonist of culture and entertainment in Milan. More than 170 shows, a world preview and thirty national first performances, among which the 16 performances of the musical Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
, the “Beethoven's Ninth Symphony” conducted by Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...
and co-produced by the Toscanini Symphonic Orchestra and Peter Stein
Peter Stein
Peter Stein is a critically acclaimed German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company that he brought to the forefront of German theatre....
interpreting a grand text like Faust
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...
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Among the musical events strongly wanted by David Guido Pietroni in the same year in Milan we can count the performances of the rock legends Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
and Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
, Goran Bregović
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
, Paolo Conte and the Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
closing concert at the Arena in Milan.
Once the theater season closed, he starts programming, always with Vittorio Sgarbi, the first edition of MiTo, the International Music Festival of Milan and Turin, one of the most important European musical events. In September 2007 the air of Milan resounds with the seven notes and in less than one month almost 200 concerts are held in the two cities. The first performance takes place in Milan with Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
on the stage together with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in Hebrew as התזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit...
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Before starting new theater projects, he devoted some months to an extremely important event for both fashion and art. In co-operation with the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, he organized and produced the personal show of the renowned English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
, which took place at the Palazzo Reale of Milan.
Since 2006, David Guido Pietroni is a member of the prestigious Tribeca Film Center, the production center wanted by Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
and Jane Rosenthal
Jane Rosenthal
Jane Rosenthal is an American film producer.Rosenthal was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Providence, Rhode Island; she attended both Brown and New York University...
. The Center established to support the new promises of American movie industry and the New York Film Community.
In 2008 David wrote with Barbara Zucchi the musical comedy The Chronicler of Broadway http://www.davidpietroni.com/eng/broadway/.
It deals with Italian-American and Jewish gangsters and relates, through a “Chronicler”, the myth of the roaring twenties
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London, Berlin and Paris for a period of sustained economic prosperity. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism...
. Golden worlds made of gangsters who love, struggle, dream and destroy on the other side of the ocean. Stories that have created a myth which would dissolve in the space of a few years.
It is directed and produced by David Guido Pietroni and written together with Barbara Zucchi; costumes are designed by Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
, stage-designing is by Carlo Leva, art-director for Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini.
David Guido Pietroni lives between Milan and Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
and since 2010 he has been married with the Israeli producer and music player Dalit Aizner (DJ Dali).
Awards
From the live shooting of the show the opera DVD entitled Rigoletto StoryGiuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story is a film version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto . Filmed in Siena in 2002 , it was directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by David Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De Santis.Rigoletto Story has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories...
was presented at the Venice Screenings within the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
in 2004, the DVD is distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. David Guido Pietroni has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s in the categories “Best Surround Sound” and “Best Long Form Music Video”, having Pietroni become voting member of the Recording Academy and won three Best Event Awards (2004) in the categories "Best Cultural Event of the Year", "Best Location" and "Best Sound".