Top-level roles in the public and private sector round out Petrocelli’s wide knowledge and senior leadership expertise in the area of performing arts management.
As per 2023, Paolo Petrocelli serves as the Head of Dubai Opera in the United Arab Emirates.
From 2020 to 2022, Petrocelli served as founding Director General of the Stauffer Center for Strings of Cremona, the first international music center dedicated entirely to stringed instruments, home to the Accademia Stauffer, one of Italy’s most prestigious higher music education institutions.
Former Youth Board Member of the International Music Council and the European Music Council, he has been appointed in 2014 as one of the youngest members ever elected to the Board of Directors of the Rome Opera House.
Former Associate Director at IMG Artists, he served as Assistant to the Superintendent for international development and external relations of the Rome Opera House , Advisor for International Development and Special Projects at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman and Director General of ClassicheFORME, the International Chamber Music Festival founded by pianist Beatrice Rana, in the heart of Salento (Apulia, Italy).
Petrocelli is a Music Expert of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, a Board Member of the Italian Association for Cultural Economics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Advisory Council of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), an Honorary Board Member of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and a former Board Member of the Accademia Chigiana of Siena and the Conservatory of Music of Venice.