Luca Ronconi (8 March 1933 – 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.
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), Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1974 Die Walküre and 1975 Siegfried by Wagner; Don Carlos by Verdi, 1978; Les Troyens by Berlioz, 1980, with Dunja Vejzovic as Didon), 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).
There was nothin going on in this old town
Just one street and the shops shut down
The sun has come the grass is dry
You came kicking up dust as you rolled by
With tangled hair and spirit free
Something stirred inside of me
You rock you rock a country world
And you roll me in your loving ways
And you shook you shook the stoney ground
Go girl
You rock my world
Your wide smile turns hard and thin
When your horse plays up and he wont give in
Well Im amazed at everything you do
Like a desert fire I burn for you
Well there's a power I can't explain
Its like thunder rollin across a plain
You rock you rock a country world
And you roll me in your loving ways
And you shook you shook the stoney ground
Go girl
You rock my world
Your eyes so deep they draw me in
And you take me higher than Ive ever been
You rock you rock a country world
And you roll me in your loving ways
And when you shook you shook the stoney ground
Go girl
You rock you rock a country world
And you roll me in your loving ways
And you shook you shook the stoney ground
Go girl
You rock my world
Yes you rock my world
Rock my country world