Il solista vuole esibirsi domani.

In this sentence, il is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

• il solista = the soloist

Italian usually uses the article with a noun when you are talking about a specific person or thing. In English, we do the same here: the soloist wants to perform tomorrow.

You could say just solista in some special contexts, but as a normal subject in a full sentence, il solista is the natural form.

Not necessarily. Solista can refer to either a male or female soloist, depending on context.

What changes is usually the article:

• il solista = the male soloist
• la solista = the female soloist

So the noun itself often stays the same, but the article tells you the gender.

Vuole is the third person singular form of volere, which means to want.

Here is the present tense of volere:

• io voglio = I want
• tu vuoi = you want
• lui/lei vuole = he/she wants
• noi vogliamo = we want
• voi volete = you (plural) want
• loro vogliono = they want

Since il solista = he/the soloist, Italian uses vuole:

• Il solista vuole... = The soloist wants...

After a conjugated modal verb like volere (to want), Italian normally uses the infinitive directly, without a separate word equivalent to English to.

So:

• vuole esibirsi = wants to perform

This is very common in Italian:

• voglio mangiare = I want to eat
• può venire = he/she can come
• deve studiare = he/she must study

English uses to in many of these cases, but Italian does not.

Esibirsi is a pronominal/reflexive-style infinitive meaning to perform, to appear as a performer, or to put on a performance.

The -si is part of the verb in this meaning. It is not just an optional extra.

Compare:

• esibire = to display, to exhibit, to show
• esibirsi = to perform

So in this sentence, esibirsi does not mean literally to exhibit oneself in a word-for-word English way. It is simply the normal Italian verb for to perform.

Examples:

• Il cantante si esibisce stasera. = The singer is performing tonight.
• Vuole esibirsi domani. = He wants to perform tomorrow.

Yes, that is also possible.

With verbs like volere, potere, and dovere, a pronoun connected to the infinitive can often either:

1. stay attached to the infinitive
   
   • vuole esibirsi

or

2. move before the conjugated verb
   
   • si vuole esibire

Both are grammatical.

In this sentence:

• Il solista vuole esibirsi domani
• Il solista si vuole esibire domani

Both can mean The soloist wants to perform tomorrow.

The version with the pronoun attached to the infinitive, vuole esibirsi, is often the one learners meet first and is very straightforward.

Domani means tomorrow. Putting it at the end is very natural:

• Il solista vuole esibirsi domani.

But Italian word order is fairly flexible, so you can also say:

• Domani il solista vuole esibirsi.
• Il solista domani vuole esibirsi.

These all make sense. The difference is mostly one of emphasis or style:

• Domani... puts more focus on tomorrow
• ending with domani is a very neutral, common order

A rough pronunciation guide:

• vuole ≈ VWAW-leh
• esibirsi ≈ eh-zee-BEER-see

A few useful points:

• In vuole, the vuo- part is pronounced together, something like vwo-
• In esibirsi, the stress falls on bir: esi-BIR-si
• The s in esibirsi is pronounced like an English s, not z

A rough full-sentence pronunciation:

• Il solista vuole esibirsi domani
• ≈ eel so-LEE-sta VWAW-leh eh-zee-BEER-see doh-MAH-nee

No. Esibirsi is an infinitive, not a tense-marked verb form.

The only conjugated verb here is vuole, which is present tense:

• vuole = wants

So the structure is:

• Il solista = subject
• vuole = present tense verb
• esibirsi = infinitive
• domani = time expression

Literally, the pattern is:

• The soloist wants perform tomorrow

But natural English adds to:

• The soloist wants to perform tomorrow

Usually domani simply means tomorrow, the day after today.

In some contexts, like English tomorrow, it can also be used a bit more loosely to mean in the future, but in a basic sentence like this, the normal reading is the literal one:

• Il solista vuole esibirsi domani. = The soloist wants to perform tomorrow.

So unless context suggests otherwise, you should understand domani literally.