Luca Ronconi (Director)

100 Years of Love

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

Release Date1954-02-25

Charactersd Guest at the Party (segment "Amore 1954") (uncredited)

Vote Count2

La scuola d'estate

Documentary follows the experimental drama course given by the old Italian theatre and opera legend Lucio Ronconi every summer in a remote corner of Umbria, where young, dedicated acting talent rehearse several plays.

Release Date2014-11-27

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count2

Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi

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 moment in his career, to undertake the production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Calderon as part of the Prato theater workshop.

Release Date1977-09-01

Charactersd Himself

Modern Virgin

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 eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.

Release Date1954-09-22

Charactersd Andrea Bardi

Vote Count2

I prepotenti

Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.

Release Date1958-07-25

Charactersd Gennarino Esposito

Vote Count4

Prepotenti più di prima

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 parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.

Release Date1959-03-11

Charactersd Gennarino Esposito

Vote Count3

Guglielmo Tell

Live from La Scala Wednesday 14 December 1988.

Release Date1988-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Aida

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 larger-than-life staging. The Triumph Scene in Act II is by no means Aida's only attraction, but it is the part that makes the strongest and most lasting impression and it is the visual and musical climax of this production. Stage director Luca Ronconi brings on a procession to dwarf all processions: looted treasures, heroic statuary, miserable captives struggling under the lash of whip-bearing slave drivers. On par with these visuals is Lorin Maazel's first-class performance of the popular Grand March with the outstanding La Scala chorus and orchestra. In Act III, the contrasting tranquility of the Nile Scene also gets a visual treatment to match the music's qualities.

Release Date1985-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Lehman Trilogy

Release Date2015-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Frenzy of Orlando

Tales of knights and princesses, wizards and sorceresses. Featuring an invisibility ring, a hippogriff, and a trip to the moon. Based on a sixteenth-century Italian chivalric poem by Ludovico Ariosto.

Release Date1975-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Il viaggio a Reims

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 Plombières-les-Bains, the opera follows a diverse group of aristocratic characters as they gather to celebrate the coronation of King Charles X of France. Amidst the festivities, wacky antics ensue, romantic entanglements unfold, and the characters face various comedic and dramatic challenges, showcasing Rossini's masterful blend of music, comedy, and drama.

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Man Who Laughs

This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.

Release Date1966-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8

Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon

Live from La Scala Wednesday 10 December 2003

Release Date2003-12-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Il Trittico

Juan Pons, Barbara Frittoli, Mariana Lipovsek, and Leo Nucci star in this 2008 La Scala production of the Puccini trilogy (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi) conducted by Riccardo Chailly.

Release Date2008-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff

Ruggero Raimondi and Barbara Frittoli star in this 2006 production of the Verdi opera with Zubin Mehta conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Giuseppe Verdi's last opera is given new life in this production by Luca Ronconi. Utilizing the sights and social conditions of modern Britain, this version of Shakespeare's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR keeps the comedy accessible while still featuring all the elements that have made this opera a perennial favorite.

Release Date2007-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (Teatro)

Luca Ronconi directs Corrado Pani, Ilaria Occhini and Franco Graziosi in this ambitious stage adaptation of Gadda’s masterpiece.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Last Days of Humanity

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, broadcast by Rai

Release Date1991-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Verdi: Macbeth

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 great pains with this opera, displaying special enthusiasm for it as he concentrated on the main characters of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the witches. This recording of Luca Ronconi's production is conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, who brings fresh color to Verdi's score. The cast, headed by Renato Bruson and Mara Zampieri, are strongly supported by a fine-toned and adaptable chorus who ably meet the demands of Verdi's great "chorus opera.

Release Date1987-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Verdi Ernani

It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian Baritone that he was at that time; Nicolai Ghiaurov proves again that he was one of the greatest "Verdi Basses"; Mirella Freni shows that there was more to her than just being Mimi and Susannah-in fact I can remember reading that at the time of the premiere of this production that there were fist fights (not unusual in La Scala's gallery) between Mirella's many fans--between those fans that just wanting her to continue singing the light lyric repertoire that they were use to her singing and those that felt she should and could sing the lyric-spinto repertoire which, of course, she proved that,indeed, she could (She's still singing more than twenty years later). This performance captures some of the best Verdi singers of the time doing dear ole wonderful Giuseppi proud.

Release Date1982-07-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Orestea

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.

Release Date1972-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Nabucco

A groundbreaking production of Verdi's masterpiece and its first video recording. Recorded live in Florence in 1977.

Release Date1977-05-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Special Infinities

documentary on the play Infinities

Release Date2013-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tosca

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 in Rome on 14 January 1900. This version is conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala, Milan.

Release Date2000-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

I Vespri Siciliani

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 it must be incredibly long. It is long but not as long as some people may fear as most of the acts are under half an hour each. The total length of the DVD in question is 171 minutes, just under 3 hours, including titles at the beginning, applauses and curtain calls between the acts and at the end. The opera contains Verdi's most powerful overture and a number of very elegant arias, duets and ensembles for the principals.

Release Date1986-07-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi

The study of “Six Characters in search of an author” that Luca Ronconi conducted for three years in his summer creative workshop with the students of the National Academy of Dramatic Art.

Release Date2012-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman, a former bank director, was imprisoned for fraud but believes he was wrongly convicted. He had invested clients' money in a major industrial venture but was reported by his friend Hinkel, who was in love with Borkman's former fiancée, Ella Rentheim. Borkman now lives on the first floor of the house, with his estranged wife, Gunhild, living on the ground floor. He occasionally receives visits from his friend Wilhelm Foldal, who supports Borkman's delusion that the bank will reinstate him. In his youth, Borkman betrayed his love for Ella by marrying her twin sister Gunhild to advance his career. After his conviction, Ella took care of their son Erhart and now wants him to live with her and take her name. Borkman agrees, but Gunhild refuses to let her sister take their son.

Release Date1982-01-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Parola (su una data)

Release Date2003-01-01

Episode Count1

Uberto degli specchi

Release Date2016-12-22