In 1977 he translated, with Giuseppe Ferrari, Il cinema according to Hitchcock by Truffaut-Pratiche Editrice, a cult of film publishing. In 1982 he created cultural programs for Rai3. In 1986 he founded Lenz Rifrazioni in Parma, with Maria Federica Maestri, a rigorous and innovative research theater highlighted by the critic Giuseppe Bartolucci, and Lenz Fondazione since 2015.
Dramaturg and visual artist. In 1977, with Giuseppe Ferrari, he translated Truffaut-Pratiche Editrice's Cinema According to Hitchcock, a cult film publishing cult. In 1982 he created cultural programs for Rai3. In 1986, together with Maria Federica Maestri, he founded Lenz Rifrazioni in Parma, a theatre of rigorous and innovative research highlighted by the critic Giuseppe Bartolucci, which has been the Lenz Foundation since 2015.
He won the Orizzonti Dramaturgia In-finita award, chaired by Cesare Milanese, with the original text Pur vivere sul terra gli uomini sono barche inspired by Mayakovsky.
He is the author of original rewritings and dramaturgy of great classical authors including Büchner, Lenz, Mayakovsky, Hölderlin, Kleist, Shakespeare, Goethe, Grimm, Calderón de la Barca, Andersen, Genet, Ovid, Virgil, D'Annunzio, Ariosto, Dante, Aeschylus, Euripides. Calderonian operas are performed in several Spanish cities - the premiere of The Constant Prince takes place in Alméria - and receive the acclaim of the authoritative Baroque theatre scholar Ricard Salvat. During the same period he made a documentary Melancolía contromano in Morocco.
In 1999, Ronconi invited the opera Ham-let to the Piccolo Teatro's Festival del Teatro d'Europa and Guido Davico Bonino described its absolute originality in RAISAT. Subsequently, Grimm's operas Snow White and Cinderella were invited to Lille, Madrid, Cairo, Olot, Arles and Ivry; he made several documentary films including Figures Moved in a Therapeutic Community, Imagoturgy at the Prado, Lenz in the Cathedral in Parma Cathedral; Little Red Riding Hood, which he directed, inaugurated the first Festival of Social Interactions at the Teatro Duse in Bologna directed by Claudio Meldolesi; Life is Dream, She is invited to the Almagro Classical Theatre Festival; the Little Mermaid, a production included in the Hans Cristian Andersen 2005 Foundation's Celebrations, to the Salamanca Festival.
He oversaw the composition of the diptych Fábrica negra and Canciones del Alma from the verses of Juan de La Cruz and a multi-year project for the performative transcription of Pier Luigi Bacchini's poetic works. From 2009 to 2014, he curated the imagoturgy of Exilium, performed in Romania, and Die Schachtel, performed by the Prometeo ensemble directed by Marco Angius, supervised by Salvatore Sciarrino; he also curated the dramaturgy and imagoturgy of Hamlet at the Teatro Farnese in Parma, and of Adelchi, Lenz's second work on Manzoni's works after The Betrothed.
From 2014 to today he has created the images for the staging of Verdi Re Lear (Verdi Festival 2015); of the biennial project dedicated to the Furioso; from 2015 to today he has curated the dramaturgy and imagoturgy of the permanent project on the themes of the Resistance and the Holocaust and of numerous works including: Autodafé (Verdi Festival 2016); Purgatory and Paradise (Verdi Festival 2017); The Great Theatre of the World (2018), La Vida es Sueño (2019), Violent Hipógrifo, Flowers like stars?, Other State (invited to the Venice Theatre Biennale in 2021), Violent Hipógrifo; Life is a Dream at the Abbey of Valserena, chapters of the four-year project The Imminent Past for Parma 2020+21 Capital Culture.
Among his musical collaborations: in 2017 he created Imagoturgia for a concert on the occasion of the inauguration of the seventeenth-century Staircase of Honour of the Pilotta of Parma, the live concert is performed simultaneously at the Teatro Farnese by Robin Rimbaud, stage name Scanner, one of the most important composers of the world electronic scene and author of the music of Verdi Re Lear and Caperucita Roja, stage rewrite from the opera by Garcia Lorca and staged at the Royal Palace of Colorno. With Lillevan Recherche, another internationally renowned composer of many of Lenz's works, he created Orestea Concert - an imagoturgy for his three-year project on tragedy - performed live on visual sequences.
Work on Work – Every Man Is an Artist – is a digital engagement experience that involves the introduction of touch painting sessions during museum visits, in which visitors are invited to create their own work on the exhibited work through the interposition of a transparent screen that allows, through touch and in interactive mode, to re-draw the work creating a new digital artistic artefact.
In 2021 he participated in an international conference on Spanish Baroque Theatre promoted by the Instituto Cervantes. He writes the text and creates the imagoturgy for The Creation from Haydn's work and Milton's Paradise Lost, commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the first chapter of the four-year project inspired by the Holy Scriptures.
In 2021-24 he curated the dramaturgy and imagoturgy of a complex four-year project inspired by the Holy Scriptures: Creation, Numbers, Apocalypse, Gnostic Apocalypses. In 2022 he was awarded the certificate of civic merit by the City of Parma. In 2024 he curated the visual refractions of the performative iconostasis Over Gina Pane_4 Sentimental Actions.
In 2025, for the project of performative transcriptions of works by female artists, she created the imagoturgy of Over Leonora Carrington_Distrazioni, a site-specific composition for the Sala Steccata of the Governor's Palace. Also in 2025, the visual composition of Questa febble forza was performed by Hölderlin's Choirs of Oedipus the Tyrant, and in dialogue with Verdi's musical opera, the dramaturgy and imagoturgy of Disdemona dall'Otello and the writings of Simone Weil for the 2025 Verdi Festival.
Numerous critics and scholars of theatre, dance and visual arts write about Lenz's works, including Vallejo, Quadri, Manzella, Ercolani, Distefano, Palazzi, Marino, Sonno, Bevione, Acquaviva, Ottolenghi, Rizzo, Chimenti, Piergiacomi, Mei, Olivieri, Brighenti, Serrazanetti, Azzoni, Lei, Lotano, Arrigoni, Rigolli, Zanon, Pesce.