Matteo Paoletti

Matteo Paoletti (1984) is a senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna since 2021. He develops his research in the field of Economics and organisation of theatre, Opera staging and relationships between theatre and cultural diplomacy.

He is PI of Theatre and music between two shores of the Mediterranean: cultural connections between Italy and Tunisia (Global South 2022) and Migrantheatre/Migration perspectives in Europe (UNA Europa 2021).

He was a Cultural attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the Italian National Commission for UNESCO oversaw the 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

His recent publications include:

• «A huge revolution of theatrical commerce». Walter Mocchi and the Italian Musical Theatre Business in South America, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• «A single purpose: the conquest of the foreign art markets»: Theatre and cultural diplomacy in Mussolini's Italy (1919-1927), New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 38, Issue 3, August 2022.