Silvia Paoli is an Italian director and actress born in Florence. After
attending modern literature at the University, she graduated at the
Academy of dramatic art “Paolo Grassi” in Milan.
Silvia specialized under the guidance of Bruno De Franceschi, Maria
Consagra, Raffaella Giordano, Anton Milienin, Danio Manfredini, Odin
Theatre. At the beginning of her career she started collaborating as an
actress with Peter Stein and with directors as Paolo Rossi, Damiano
Michieletto, M. Schmidt, S. Barbarino, F. Brandi, A. Milenin, I. Konyaev
in various Italian and international productions. Silvia also collaborated
with musicians such as Gioa Feidman and Micrologus.
In 2007 she wrote and successfully interpreted Livia, while in
2013 she wrote the comic monologue Bucce; in her works is
constantly present the musical accompaniment by Francesco Canavese, with
whom she carries on the project Mu.Te, project that also includes Emiliano
Nigi, musician and Andrea Macaluso, actor. In 2013 Silvia Paoli was
awarded with the “Sorelle Gramatica” prize as emerging talent and she also
received two nomination as best comic actress at the Ubu award.
Silvia Paoli started working in the opera field as assistant director for
Damiano Michieletto in various productions at the Rossini Opera Festival
in Pesaro, at the Zurich Opernhaus and in the Theater an der Wien in
Vienna.
Silvia Paoli made her debut as opera director with La Cenerentola in
Tenerife, returning to Opera de Tenerife with new productions of Le
Nozze di Figaro (2015) and I Capuleti e Montecchi (2017),
with both the productions later revived at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
in 2016 and 2018. In 2016 she directed Puccini’s Turandot for the
AsLiCo circuit in Italy and Offenbach’s Vent du soir at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. She then directed Otello at the
Teatro Sociale in Como and Donizetti’s Enrico di Borgogna at the
Festival Donizetti in Bergamo.
In recent seasons, she staged Lucrezia Borgia in the theatres of
Tenerife, Oviedo and Bologna, Carmen at Teatro Regio in Parma,
created a new production of La casa de Bernarda Alba and
supervised the revival of her production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
Her staging of L'Empio Punito at the Innsbruck Festival earned
her the German Critics' Prize as the revelation of the year and a
re-invitation to direct Bononcini's Astarto, with great
appreciation of both public and critics.
In 2022, she had a big success with her debut in France, staging Tosca
at the Opera National de Lorraine in Nancy, a production that was
revived at the Opera de Toulon and will be revived as well in Nantes,
Angers, Rennes, Limoges and Vichy.
Other recent engagements include: a new production of Iphigenie en
Tauride in Nancy and Bern; Il Turco in Italia at the
Festival della Val d’Itria in Martina Franca; and La Traviata in
Nantes and Rennes.
Future projects include: La Traviata at the Grand Théâtre du
Tours.
April 2025