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David Guido Pietroni

David Guido Pietroni
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Born (1970-03-09) March 9, 1970 (age 46)
Genoa, Italy
Residence Tel Aviv
Occupation Music and Film Producer
Years active 1990–present
Children 1

David Guido Pietroni (born 9 March 1970 in Genoa, Italy) is an Italian artistic theatrical, music and film producer.

He started working very young as a promoter and tour manager for Italian singers, including , , , , , , and .

Thanks to his collaboration with Compay Segundo, protagonist of one of the most important movie and home video music projects of all times: Buena Vista Social Club produced in Cuba by Ry Cooder and directed by Wim Wenders, he exploring for a long time the most important music places of the Caribbean island. He 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, with the "Arturo Toscanini Foundation" and Maurizio De Santis, he is the producer, of Rigoletto, directed by and with costumes by Vivienne Westwood. Represented in Piazza del Campo 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 he produced the DVD entitled Rigoletto Story. Presented with Quentin Tarantino at the Venice Screenings within the Venice Biennale in 2004, the DVD is distributed worldwide by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Pietroni, with Rigoletto Story, he was eligible with two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories "Best Surround Sound" and "Best Long Form Music Video".

Since 1990 he is agent and producer of . Together with Sgarbi he has planned the season 2007/2008 of the in Milan, the prestigious theater which has hosted the shows of La Scala Theater for three years, during its restoration works. More than 170 shows, a world preview and thirty national first performances, among which the performances of the musical Cats in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show co-produced together with Christopher Malcolm, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel and co-produced by the Toscanini Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Stein's interpretation of Faust, Katie Melua and Lenny Kravitz.


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