Luca Ronconi

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Luca Ronconi (born 8 March 1933 in Sousse, Tunisia) is an actor, theater director, and opera director.

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After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, he 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 and since then has worked almost exclusively as a director.

His operatic productions include Carmen (1970), Das Rheingold (1979), Nabucco (1977), Il Trovatore (1977), Norma (with Renata Scotto, 1978), Macbeth (1980), La traviata (1982), Aïda (1985), L'Orfeo (1985 and 1998) Don Giovanni (1990 and 1999), The Makropulos Affair (1993), The Turn of the Screw (1995), Tosca (1997), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1998), Lohengrin (1999), and L'incoronazione di Poppea (2000).