Assistant Director
Paolo
Giani
Cei
Paolo Giani Cei

Born in Turin, since 2008 he has been collaborating with the director Stefano Poda as assistant director, assistant scenic designer, costume designer and lighting designer.

As dramaturge, he has participated in the following productions: Tristan und Isolde at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (conducted by Zubin Mehta, directed by Stefano Poda, 2014), Fosca (directed by Stefano Poda) and the ballet Titan to the music of Mahler's First Symphony at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo (choreographed by Stefano Poda, 2016).

He worked on the revival of Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Verdi in Padua (directed by Beni Montresor, 2014). He worked on the revival of Nabucco (directed by Stefano Poda) in Pordenone (2013), Trieste and Udine (2015).

As director, scenic, costume and lighting designer, he staged La voix humaine at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (2016). At the Teatro Verdi in Padua he staged La Traviata (2015), Capuleti e Montecchi (co-production with the Operaestate Festival in Bassano, 2016), La bohème (co-production with the Teatro Civile di Rovigo, 2016), Cenerentola (co-production with the Operaestate in Bassano, 2018), Don Giovanni (co-production with the Teatro Civile di Rovigo, 2019), The Merry Widow (co-production with the Teatro Mario del Monaco in Treviso, 2020).

Works as dramaturge and assistant director include

Nabucco at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2020), Romeo et Juliette at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing (2018), Boris Godunov (2017) and André Chénier (2015) at the Korean National Opera, La forza del destino at the Giuseppe Verdi Festival in Parma (2014), L'elisir d'amore at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg (2016), Otello at the Hungarian State Opera (2015), and Faust (co-production by the Teatro Regio di Torino, Israel Opera Tel Aviv and Lausanne Opera, 2015; video published by the lables UnitelClassica and C MajorEntertainment), Turandot at the Teatro Regio di Torino (2018, video published by C Major), Thais at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo (2015), Ariodante (2016), Lucia di Lammermoor (2017) and Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2019), co-produced by Israel Opera and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Ariane et Barbe-bleue at The Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (2019, the production was awarded the Claude-Rostand-Award of the French Theatre Critics Association).

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM