Lucia
Ronchetti

Choral opera for male children choir, male vocal ensemble, male choir, male amateur choir, 1 male horn player, 1 male trumpet player, 1 male trombone player
Text after Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri (1817-1832)
Commission: ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln
Edizioni Casa Ricordi
Duration: ca 50 m

Choral opera for male voices vocal ensemble, treble voices choir, amateur choirs (also playing organ pipes) and grand organ
(2020)
Text after François Rabelais
Commission: Nouvelle Philharmonie Paris
Edizioni Casa Ricordi
Duration: ca 20 m

Choral opera for treble female voices ensemble, mixed choir and amateur choir (2016)
Libretto by Guido Barbieri
(based on documents collated by Elena Garcia-Fernandez and Marco Innamorati)
Commission: Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Publisher: Rai com
Duration: ca. 50 m

New version for spoken voice, vocal ensemble and mixed chorus (2013)
(in commemoration of the earthquake in L’Aquila,  6 April 2009)
Text by Guido Barbieri with fragments from Hölderlin,  Shelley, Voltaire
Commission: Società Aquilana dei Concerti B. Barattelli
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 30 m

In-transit action after Sebastian Brant
for actors, soloists, amateur wind orchestra, amateur male choir,
skateboarders and passers-by (2009)
Text based on Sebastian Brant
Commission: Bayerische Staatsoper
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 40 m (each section)

A study of personification
Dramaturgy after the Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz
for choir and instrumental ensemble (2009-2010)
With fragments by John Donne, Torquato Tasso,
Francisco de Quevedo, Andrew Marvell, Richard Crashaw
Selected by Eugene Ostashevsky
Dedicated to Ulrich Etscheit
Commission: Musikbüro der Martinskirche, Kassel
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Duration: ca. 1 h 15 m