Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi ( born March 8, 1933, Sousse, Tunisia ) is an Italian theater director.
Life
Luca Ronconi, who was born in Tunisia, where his mother teaches literature, graduated to his graduate training as an actor at the Accademia d' Arte Drammatica in Rome. Does then with in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa or Michelangelo Antonioni. Since 1963, first experience as a director. His international breakthrough came in 1969 with Orlando Furioso Ronconi by Ariosto. This work has been shown not only throughout Italy but worldwide guest appearances.
Between 1975 and 1977 passes Ronconi of the theater section of the Venice Biennale. In 1979, and he is now responsible for a Theaterlaboratium in Prato. From 1989 to 1994 he has directed the Teatro Stabile in Turin, then he is appointed director of the Teatro di Roma. In early 1999 he will succeed Giorgio Strehler as artistic director of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
Ronconi applies in addition to the chasers as the most important Italian director of the 20th century. His productions are characterized by exactly intellectually penetrated concepts, which are also reflected in the most elaborate stage sets - protagonist of a " poor theater" is not this director. Regularly Ronconi productions presented, the spatial - for example in industrial buildings - or time - ignore borders - by exceeding the usual screening period. The importance of the stage set for his productions led Ronconi to work with the main Italian set designers, including Pier Luigi Pizzi, Ezio Frigerio Luciano Damiani or. Of particular importance in this respect was the cooperation with the architect Gae Aulenti, which he inspired the creation of equipment and heranzog.
His works are a diversified repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the modern era, with its repeated manifested interest is the theater of antiquity. In addition to numerous productions in Italy Ronconi worked repeatedly in major theaters in Austria ( Vienna Burgtheater, Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival ), Switzerland ( Zurich Schauspielhaus ) or France ( Comédie- Française ).
Since the late 1960s Ronconi is active as an opera director. Here he devoted himself to a repertoire that ranges from Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Wagner to Karlheinz Stockhausen. Ronconi has here always known to an anti -realist music theater, which he sees settled contrary to the principles of spoken theater. A psychological foundation of the acting performances of opera singers is not important to him, but he is trying to bring each work in context with the time of origin and the current situation. In Die Walküre by Wagner he situate the events in beleaguered by natural and industrial interiors of the 19th century, and Il viaggio a Reims by Gioachino Rossini was one of paparazzi umlagertes to -saving in anarchistic mirth Opera Star Theater.
As part of the 2006 Winter Olympics Ronconi was responsible for a part of the cultural program. Under the title Domani ( Tomorrow ) have been performed in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile of Turin on various locales five pieces, in which 68 actors were involved: Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare ( February 2 to March 11 ); War Games by Edward Bond ( February 3 to March 12 ); Il silenzio dei Comunisti ( The Silence of the Communists ) by Vittorio Foa, Miriam Mafai, Alfredo Reichlin; Lo specchio del diavolo ( The mirror of the devil ) on a text by Giorgio Ruffolo ( February 6 to March 5 ); Biblioetica. Dizionario per l' uso ( Biblioethik. dictionary for use ) by Gilberto Corbellini, Pino Donghi, Armando Massarenti ( February 14-March 12 ).
For the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence Ronconi staged a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (Conductor Zubin Mehta ) ( Premiere May 12, 2006 ). In autumn 2006, Ronconi designed for the Teatro Regio in Turin, a new production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ( Premiere October 10th). It was omitted in protest against the cuts in subsidies for the Italian theater sets and costumes. The stage was only through their existing technical institutions varies ( for example, by sinkings ), also a lifting crane was used, this was a sophisticated lighting design. The singers acted in everyday clothes.
2008 Ronconi was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize -.
Directing
(Selection)
- Richard III. (Shakespeare, stage Mario Ceroli, Turin 1968),
- Cathy of Heilbronn ( Kleist, Zurich 1972),
- The Bacchae ( Euripides, set design and costumes Pizzi, Vienna Burgtheater 1973)
- Die Walküre (Wagner, sets and costumes Pizzi, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, La Scala in Milan 1974)
- The Birds ( Aristophanes, sets and costumes Damiani, Burgtheater 1975)
- Utopia ( Aristophanes, stage Aulenti, Venice 1975)
- Oresteia: Part One: Agamemnon, Part Two: Libation Bearers ( Aeschylus, scenery and costumes Damiani, Burgtheater 1976)
- Wozzeck ( Alban Berg, stage Aulenti, Conductor Abbado, Milan 1977)
- The Wild Duck ( Ibsen, stage Aulenti, costumes Vera Marzot, Prato 1977),
- Norma ( Bellini, conductor Riccardo Muti, Maggio Musicale Florence, 1978),
- The tower ( Hugo von Hofmannsthal, stage Aulenti, Prato 1978),
- For Green Cockatoo / Countess Mizzi ( Arthur Schnitzler, costumes Karl Lagerfeld, Genoa 1978)
- Opera ( Luciano Berio, stage Aulenti, Nanterre, 1979),
- Macbeth (Verdi, set design and costumes Damiani, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli, German Opera Berlin, 1980),
- Medea ( Euripides, Zurich 1981)
- Thursday from light ( Karlheinz Stockhausen, stage Aulenti, conductor Péter Eötvös, Milan 1981)
- Les Troyens ( Berlioz, stage Frigerio, costumes Lagerfeld, Milan 1982)
- Phaedra (Jean Racine, Prato 1984),
- Saturday, from light (Stockhausen, stage Aulenti, conductor Stockhausen, Milan 1984)
- Il Viaggo a Reims ( Rossini, sets and costumes Aulenti, conductor Claudio Abbado, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro in 1984, La Scala in Milan in 1985, the Vienna State Opera in 1988, Ferrara 1992, and in 2005 resumed with new costumes by Giovanna Buzzi and conductor Rani Calderon at the Theatre de la Monnaie Brussels )
- Comedy of Seduction ( Schnitzler, Prato 1985),
- Ignorabimus ( Arno Holz, Prato 1986),
- The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, Paris 1987)
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan ( Rimsky -Korsakov, stage Aulenti, costumes Giovanna Buzzi, conductor Vladimir Fedosseyev, Reggio Emilia 1988)
- Visitors ( Botho Strauss, Rome 1989),
- The Difficult ( Hofmannsthal, Turin 1990),
- The last days of humanity (Karl Kraus, Turin 1990),
- Ricciardo e Zoraida ( Rossini, Stage Aulenti, conductor Riccardo Chailly, Pesaro 1990)
- Measure for Measure (Shakespeare, Turin 1992),
- Il trovatore (Verdi, stage Palli, costumes Gabriella Pescucci, conductor Sinopoli, Munich 1992 )
- Elektra ( Strauss, stage Aulenti, costumes Buzzi, conductor Sinopoli, Milan 1994)
- The Giants of the Mountain ( Pirandello, stage Margherita Palli, costumes Moidele Bickel, Salzburg, 1994),
- King Lear (Shakespeare, stage Aulenti, costumes Rudy Sabounghi, Rome 1995),
- Tonight is played off the cuff ( Pirandello, Vienna Festival 1998)
- Don Giovanni (Mozart, stage Palli, costumes Marianne Glittenberg, Salzburg 1999),
- Life is a Dream ( Calderon de la Barca, Milan 2000),
- Moise et Pharaon ( Rossini, Stage Gianni Quaranta, conductor Muti, Milan 2003),
- L' Europe riconosciuta ( Salieri, conductor Muti, Milan, 2004)
- Professor Bernhardi ( Schnitzler, stage Palli, costumes Gianluca Sbicca, Simone Valsecchi, Milan 2005),
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia ( Rossini, Stage Aulenti, costumes Buzzi, conductor Daniele Gatti, Pesaro 2005).
- Domani (stage Tiziano Santi, Silvia Aymonino costumes, Simone Valsecchi, Gianluca Sbicca, light Guido Levi, Turin 2006)
- Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini, light Andrea Anfossi, conductor Lü Jia, Teatro Regio Torino 2006 )
- Il trittico ( Puccini Conductor Chailly, stage Palli, costumes Aymonino, La Scala in Milan 2008)