Lucia
Ronchetti

Opera for actor, five solo female voices, solo viola on stage, treble voices female choir, mix choir and orchestra (2025-2026)
Libretto by Maria Stepanova (translated into German by Olga Radeskaia)
Commission: Oper Frankfurt
Publisher: Casa Ricordi, Milano
Duration: ca. 90 m

Chamber opera for actress, vocalist, mezzo-soprano, female vocal ensemble, string ensemble and percussion (2025)
Libretto by Mohammad Al Attar
Publisher: Casa Ricordi, Milan
Duration: ca 60 m

Opera for solo voices, actors, male voices vocal ensemble, mixed choir, string quartet, brass and percussions ensemble (2025)
Text from Dante’s Inferno, with an epilogue by Tiziano Scarpa
Commission: Oper Frankfurt
Commission Italian version 2025: Opera di Roma
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 90 m

Music-theatre for actress, vocalist, mezzo, female vocal ensemble, string ensemble and percussion (2024) 
Text by Mohammad Al Attar translated into German by Sandra Hetz
Commission: Munich Biennale
Edizioni Ricordi, Milano
Duration: ca. 60 m

Opera for solo voices, male voices vocal ensemble and orchestra (2022-2023)
Libretto by Katja Petrowskaja
After The Double by Dostoevsky
Commission: SWR Schwetzingen Festspiele
Published by Casa Ricordi, Milano
Duration: ca 90 m

Opera in 12 scenes for soli, vocal ensemble, choir and orchestra (2020-2021)
Libretto by Friederike Karig after Erich Kästner
Commission: Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg
Published by Casa Ricordi, Milano
Duration: ca. 90 m

Comédie instrumentale for soprano en travesti and instrumental soloists
German version (2020)
Text after Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi translated by Karin Dietrich
Commission: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 60 m

Seven conversations for soprano and ensemble (2019)
(tenor sax, electric guitar, accordion, doublebass and piano)
Text by Eugene Ostashevsky
Commission: Biennale Musica
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 25 m

Comédie instrumentale for soprano en travesti and instrumental soloists.
Italian version (2018)
Text after Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Commission: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 60 m

Opera for solo voices, actors, male voices vocal ensemble, mixed choir, string quartet, brass and percussions ensemble (2017-2018)
Text from Dante’s Inferno, with an epilogue by Tiziano Scarpa
Dedicated to Mariagrazia Pescetelli
Commission: Oper Frankfurt
Duration: ca. 90 m
Rai Com Music Publishing

Chamber opera for female voice, solo viola, brass ensemble and metal percussion ensemble (2017) 
Libretto from Antoine Danchet 
Dedicated to Jens Schroth
Commission: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 60 m

Theater music for Achim Freyer
for soprano, vocalist, actors and tape (2016)
Texts collated by Steffen Sünkel and Hermann Wündrich
Direction, scenes and costumes: Achim Freyer
Commission: Berliner Ensemble
Duration: ca. 120 m

Comédie instrumentale for soprano en travesti and instrumental soloists (2015)
Text after Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Commission: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Co-production: Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra de Rouen
Rai Com Music Publishing
Duration: ca. 60 m

Opera for actors, voices, vocal ensemble, children's choir, choir and orchestra (2014)
Text by Ermanno Cavazzoni
Direction, set and costumes
by Achim Freyer
Dramaturgy by Elena Garcia-Fernandez
Commission: Nationaltheater Mannheim
First performance: Nationaltheater Mannheim, 29 May 2015
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 110 m

Chamber opera in four scenes for soloists, vocal ensemble
and chamber orchestra (2014)
Text by Anne Gerber and Lucia Ronchetti
from letters and librettos by Pietro Metastasio
Commission: Semperoper Dresden
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 60 m

Intermezzo for soprano, two baritones, baroque bassoon and violone (2013)
Part of Mise en abyme
Text by Anne Gerber and Lucia Ronchetti
based on Didone abbandonata by Pietro Metastasio
Dedicated to Eytan Pessen
Commission: Semperoper Dresden
Co-production with Opernhaus Halle
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 15 m

Scene for baritone and vocal quartet (2012)
Part of Mise en abyme
Text by Anne Gerber and Lucia Ronchetti
(based on fragments from the letters by Pietro Metastasio)
Commission: Semperoper Dresden
Co-production with Opernhaus Halle
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 15 m

Chamber opera for a young audience based on Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart
for soloists, vocal ensemble and chamber ensemble (2011)
Text by Kristo Sagor
Commission: Nationaltheater, Mannheim
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration:  ca. 60 m

Riduzione dal Giasone di Francesco Cavalli
for female voice, male voice, vocal quartet and instrumental ensemble (2010)
Text based on Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Commission: Konzerthaus Berlin
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 1 h 15 m

Music theater for 14 voices, brass ensemble and live electronics
(2007, rev. 2009)
4S.2M.2C.3T.3B, Brass 2. 1. 1. 1
Text by Steffi Hensel
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 90 m

A Tragedy in One Act
Music theater for treble voice, countertenor, bass, viola and live electronics
Text based on Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in an adaptation by Tina Hartmann (2003-2004)
Commission: Forum Neues Musiktheater, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade RTC 1517
Duration: ca. 50 m

Atto unico da Giorgio Manganelli
Music theater for female voice, viola and live electronics (2002)
Text by Giorgio Manganelli
Dedicated to Annamaria D’Agostino
Commission: Certosa di Padula/Project “Le opere e I giorni”
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 25 m

Music theater for children
for soprano, trombone, percussion, treble voices, tape and live electronics (2001)
Text and drawings by Toti Scialoja
Commission: Teatro Sociale di Rovigo
Co-production: Teatro Sociale di Rovigo
Conservatorio di Musica “Francesco Venezze”, Rovigo
Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
Federazione CEMAT, Roma
CRM  - Centro Ricerche Musicali, Roma
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade RTC 678-2
Duration: ca. 30 m