{"id":18330,"date":"2025-04-08T17:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/?post_type=cast&#038;p=18330"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:25:40","slug":"gianni-chai-paolo-associate-director","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/gianni-chai-paolo-associate-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Giani Cei Paolo, Associate Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Paolo Giani Cei<\/strong> was born in Turin. In October 2014, at Teatro Verdi in Padua, he signs the staging of Puccini&#8217;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 <strong>Boh\u00e8me<\/strong> (2017), <strong>Cenerentola<\/strong> (2018) <strong>Don<\/strong> <strong>Giovanni<\/strong> (2019) co-productions with Teatro di Rovigo. Finally, it is the turn of <strong>Merry<\/strong> <strong>Widow<\/strong> (2021), at Treviso&#8217;s Mario del Monaco Theater, as well as <strong>Barber<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong> <strong>Seville<\/strong> (2023) and <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Magic<\/strong> <strong>Flute<\/strong> (2024), in Padua and Treviso.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among the many theaters where he has worked as a collaborator of Stefano Poda, and dramaturg: the Rossini Festival in Pesaro (<strong>Eduardo e Cristina<\/strong>), the Arena Opera Festival in Verona (<strong>Aida<\/strong>, <strong>Nabucco<\/strong>), The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (<strong>Tosca<\/strong>), the Teatro Regio in Turin (<strong>Faust<\/strong>, <strong>Turandot<\/strong>, <strong>La Juive<\/strong>), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (<strong>Tristan und Isolde<\/strong>), the Verdi Festival of the Regio in Parma (<strong>La forza del destino<\/strong>), the Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires (<strong>Nabucco<\/strong>), the National Opera in Budapest (<strong>Otello<\/strong>), the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari (<strong>Trovatore<\/strong>), the National Opera of Korea (<strong>Nabucco<\/strong>), the National Opera of Peking (<strong>Rheingold<\/strong>, <strong>Romeo et Juliette<\/strong>), the National Opera of Bucharest (<strong>Oedipe<\/strong>), the Opera National du Capitole of Toulouse (<strong>Rusalka<\/strong>, <strong>Ariane et Barbe-bleue<\/strong>, <strong>Nabucco<\/strong>), the National Rhine Opera of Strasbourg (<strong>Elisir d\u2019amore<\/strong>), the Tel-Aviv Opera (<strong>Faust<\/strong>, <strong>Les contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/strong>), the Lausanne Opera (<strong>Ariodante<\/strong>, <strong>Alcina<\/strong>), the Teatro Municipal of S\u00e3o Paulo (<strong>Tosca<\/strong>), and the Op\u00e9ra Royal of Li\u00e8ge (<strong>Faust<\/strong>, <strong>Les contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">His works at the Israeli Opera:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><b>Rusalka<\/b>\u00a0(2024)<\/div>\n<div><b>Les Contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/b>\u00a0(2022)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Giani Cei was born in Turin. 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