Luca Ronconi (8 March 1933 â€" 21 February 2015) was an Italian actor,
theater director, and opera director.Ronconi was born in Sousse,
Tunisia. After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school
teacher, Ronconi graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in
1953. He acted in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa,
Michelangelo Antonioni, and others. In 1963, he directed his first
play, La buona moglie, and from then on worked almost exclusively as a
director. His first great success was with Orlando furioso.Ronconi is
considered to have been one of Europe's most influential theatrical
directors. He worked for renowned companies, such as the Burgtheater
in Vienna (The Bacchae by Euripides, 1973; The Birds by Aristophanes,
1975; The Oresteia by Aeschylus, 1976), the Vienna State Opera (Il
viaggio a Reims by Rossini, 1988), the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and
the Salzburg Festival (Die Riesen vom Berge [I giganti della montagna]
by Luigi Pirandello, 1994; Don Giovanni by Mozart, 1999).
theater director, and opera director.Ronconi was born in Sousse,
Tunisia. After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school
teacher, Ronconi graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in
1953. He acted in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa,
Michelangelo Antonioni, and others. In 1963, he directed his first
play, La buona moglie, and from then on worked almost exclusively as a
director. His first great success was with Orlando furioso.Ronconi is
considered to have been one of Europe's most influential theatrical
directors. He worked for renowned companies, such as the Burgtheater
in Vienna (The Bacchae by Euripides, 1973; The Birds by Aristophanes,
1975; The Oresteia by Aeschylus, 1976), the Vienna State Opera (Il
viaggio a Reims by Rossini, 1988), the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and
the Salzburg Festival (Die Riesen vom Berge [I giganti della montagna]
by Luigi Pirandello, 1994; Don Giovanni by Mozart, 1999).
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