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The winner of the first festival was a song entitled Te voglio bene assaie; interestingly, it was composed by the prominent opera composer, Gaetano Donizetti.

The theater is located, appropriately, in a traditional part of town, Piazza Calenda, at the extreme eastern edge of the old historic center of Naples.Music of Campania.

Obviously, the term is used to refer to original American musicals, but now is used, as well, for original productions in Italian and Neapolitan dialect.

The fair grounds site has the added advantage of containing, as well, the newly reopened outdoor amphiteater, the arena.

Modern Neapolitan performers include Pino Daniele (probably the best-known Neapolitan cantautore, both in Naples and elsewhere), Nino d'Angelo, Daniele Sepe, Rita Marcotulli, Nando Citarella and Ciro Ricci.

A subsequent Festival of Neapolitan Song on Italian state radio enjoyed some success in the 1950s but was eventually abandoned as well.

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