Paolo Giani Cei was born in Turin. In October 2014, at Teatro Verdi in Padua, he signs the staging of Puccini’s Butterfly, and in December 2015 he signs direction, sets, costumes and lights of Traviata. In 2016 he creates direction, sets, costumes and lights of La voix humaine, by F. Poulenc at Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Again for Padua in 2016 he prepares new productions of Capuleti e Montecchi (co-produced with Opera Estate di Bassano) and Bohème (2017), Cenerentola (2018) Don Giovanni (2019) co-productions with Teatro di Rovigo. Finally, it is the turn of Merry Widow (2021), at Treviso’s Mario del Monaco Theater, as well as Barber of Seville (2023) and The Magic Flute (2024), in Padua and Treviso.
Among the many theaters where he has worked as a collaborator of Stefano Poda, and dramaturg: the Rossini Festival in Pesaro (Eduardo e Cristina), the Arena Opera Festival in Verona (Aida, Nabucco), The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (Tosca), the Teatro Regio in Turin (Faust, Turandot, La Juive), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (Tristan und Isolde), the Verdi Festival of the Regio in Parma (La forza del destino), the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Nabucco), the National Opera in Budapest (Otello), the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari (Trovatore), the National Opera of Korea (Nabucco), the National Opera of Peking (Rheingold, Romeo et Juliette), the National Opera of Bucharest (Oedipe), the Opera National du Capitole of Toulouse (Rusalka, Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Nabucco), the National Rhine Opera of Strasbourg (Elisir d’amore), the Tel-Aviv Opera (Faust, Les contes d’Hoffmann), the Lausanne Opera (Ariodante, Alcina), the Teatro Municipal of São Paulo (Tosca), and the Opéra Royal of Liège (Faust, Les contes d’Hoffmann).
