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Roberto De Simone

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Italian theatre director, composer and musicologist (1933–2025)

Person · Open Library

Born
1933
Works
20

Top works

  • La canzone napolitana
  • Omaggio a Giovan Battista Pergolesi, 1710- 2010
  • The Divine Child in the Hiky Mayr collection
  • Son sei sorelle
  • Prolegomeni al Socrate immaginario

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1933-08-25
Active to
2025-04-06
composeropera

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,289
Total plays
7,620

Tags

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Roberto de Simone (1933– ) is an Italian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologis and theatre director. In his theatrical version of ‘La Gatta Cenerentola’ (‘The Cinderella Cat’, 1976) he set Giambattista Basile's 17th-century fairy tale to music, incorporating popular songs of Basile's own time with original variations on the modern folk repertoire of the Naples area. In 1994 he published Fiabe campane: i novantanove racconti delle dieci notti (Fairy Tales from Campania: The Ninety‐Nine Tales of t

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Roberto
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Naples
Place of death
Naples
Languages spoken
Italian
Official website
www.robertodesimone.net
Image
Roberto De Simone e Odette Nicoletti - foto di Augusto De Luca (Roberto De Simone crop).jpg
Work location
Rome
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medical condition
Parkinson's disease
cause of death
Parkinson's disease
date of birth
1933-08-25
Commons category
Roberto De Simone
manner of death
natural causes
date of death
2025-04-06
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