| David Guido Pietroni | |
|---|---|
| Born | Guido Davide Pietroni March 9, 1970 Genoa, Italy, IT |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Occupation | Director and producer. |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Influenced by | Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Bob Fosse |
| Religion | Jewish |
| Spouse | Dalit Aizner |
David Guido Pietroni (born 9 March 1970 in Genoa) is an Italian director and producer.
He started working as a promoter and tour manager 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, 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 with masterly skill. After exploring for a long time the most important music places of the Caribbean 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. 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 the opera David Guido Pietroni produced the DVD entitled Rigoletto Story. 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 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, 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 in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, the “Beethoven's Ninth Symphony” conducted by Lorin Maazel and co-produced by the Toscanini Symphonic Orchestra and Peter Stein interpreting a grand text like Faust.
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 and Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Goran Bregović, Paolo Conte and the Lenny Kravitz 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 on the stage together with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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, he organized and produced the personal show of the renowned English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, 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 and Jane Rosenthal. 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 [1].
It deals with Italian-American and Jewish gangsters and relates, through a “Chronicler”, the myth of the roaring twenties. 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, stage-designing is by Carlo Leva, art-director for Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini.
David Guido Pietroni lives between Milan and Tel Aviv and since 2010 he has been married with the Israeli producer and music player Dalit Aizner (DJ Dali).
From the live shooting of the show the opera DVD entitled Rigoletto Story was presented at the Venice Screenings within the Venice Biennale in 2004, the DVD is distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. David Guido Pietroni has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards 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".