Luca Ronconi
Know for: Directing
Born: 1933-03-08
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100 Years of Love (1954)
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six...
I prepotenti (1958)
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The...
La scuola d'estate (2014)
Documentary follows the experimental drama course given by the old Italian theatre and opera legend Lucio Ronconi every summer in a remote corner of...
Modern Virgin (1954)
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will...
Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi (1977)
A documentary about director Luca Ronconi. He is asked about his life and his choice to devote himself to theater and in particular, at that precise...
Tosca (2000)
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi...
Guglielmo Tell (1988)
Live from La Scala Wednesday 14 December 1988.
Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon (2003)
Live from La Scala Wednesday 10 December 2003
Nabucco (1977)
A groundbreaking production of Verdi's masterpiece and its first video recording. Recorded live in Florence in 1977.
The Last Days of Humanity (1991)
The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin,...
Verdi: Macbeth (1987)
Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his profound love for Shakespeare's work. Verdi took...
Verdi Ernani (1982)
It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian...
Il viaggio a Reims (1984)
The historic 1984 revival performance of Il viaggio a Reims was the first time in over 150 years the opera was performed. Set in a luxurious hotel in...
Aida (1985)
La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a...
Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff (2007)
Ruggero Raimondi and Barbara Frittoli star in this 2006 production of the Verdi opera with Zubin Mehta conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. ...
I Vespri Siciliani (1986)
I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact that it has 5 acts, therefore they conclude that...
The Man Who Laughs (1966)
Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
John Gabriel Borkman (1982)
John Gabriel Borkman, a former bank director, was imprisoned for fraud but believes he was wrongly convicted. He had invested clients' money in a...
In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi (2012)
The study of “Six Characters in search of an author” that Luca Ronconi conducted for three years in his summer creative workshop with the...
In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi (2012)
The study of “Six Characters in search of an author” that Luca Ronconi conducted for three years in his summer creative workshop with the...
Special Infinities (2013)
documentary on the play Infinities
Orestea (1972)
The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives,...