A graduate at Conservatorio “S. Cecilia in Roma”, Luca has also
specialized with Alessandro Quarta and Rinaldo Alessandrini in Urbino. In
2007,
he was among the winners of the “Monteverdi Competition” for the
Centenary of Orfeo in Mantua,
which led him to
perform the opera in Praga's National Theatre. He sang for several years
in
Philippe Herreweghe's Collegium Vocale Gent and he took part in
Sigiswald
Kuijken's challenging rendition of Bach's B-minor
Mass. He co-founded the AbChordis ensemble, with which he sang in
many
prestigious festivals including Ambronay Festival, Valletta
International
Baroque Festival, Les Riches Heures de Valère, Pavia Barocca, Urbino
Musica
Antica, Mars en Baroque, AnimaMea. Past engagements include: Monostato
in the
Italian version of Die
Zauberflote at
Teatro Costanzi in Rom; Perez's
Mattutino de morti and
Mozart's Vesperae solennes de
confessore with
Giulio Prandi's Ghislieri Choir&Consort.
A member of Alessandro Quarta's Concerto Romano ensemble, he was Jonas in
Carissimi's eponymous oratorio (Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal);
Giuseppe
d'Arimatea in Pasquini's La sete
di
Christo; Oloferne in
Scarlatti's Giuditta at the
Teatro Olimpico in Rome;
Inverno in La Gloria di Primavera,
again at the Wiener Konzerthaus; Consigliero in Stradella's San
Giovanni Battista at the Teatro
Argentina in Rome. He has worked with Rinaldo Alessandrini and his
Concerto
Italiano as Anfinomo in Monteverdi's Il
ritorno
d'Ulisse in Patria (Teatro Regio, Turin) and in the tour of the Vespro di San Marco and Vespro
della Beata Vergine in Spain. With
Claudio Cavina's Venexiana ensemble he toured in Japan, performing Madrigals
by Monteverdi and Gesualdo.
With Antonio Florio and his Cappella Neapolitana he performed and
recorded for
Glossa La Passione secondo
Giovanni
by Gaetano Veneziano and Giovanni
in
Handel's Resurrezione,
performed and
recorded by the Swiss Radio RSI with Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti. In
December 2016, he took part in Diego Carmini's contemporary opera Un'infinita
primavera attendo, with the Filarmonica
Romana.
He also took part as
Pastore and Spirito in Monteverdi's Orfeo
at Teatro Regio, Turin under Florio; King Ahasuerus in Handel's Esther
at the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara;
as Nettuno in La divisione del
mondo
by Legrenzi at the Theater Kiel, both under Alessandro Quarta.
Most recent engagements include: Anfinomo in Monteverdi's Il
Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and Corimbo
in Melani's L'Empio Punito
for the
Reate Festival; Arasse in Vinci's Siroe,
Re
di Persia at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Damon in Handel's Acis&Galatea at the Teatro
Comunale
in Ferrara; Lucano in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione
di
Poppea in Kiel; Emilio in Mozart's Il
Sogno
di Scipione in Venice under Sardaelli.
He took part in numerous Operas by Stradella with Andrea De Carlo and
Mare Nostrum Ensemble: as Teofilo in Stradella's San Giovanni Crisostomo; Santa
Pelagia; Celindo in La Doriclea; Rosalbo in Amare&fingere
and as Simona in Il Trespolo
tutore. He sang as
Consigliero in Stradella's San
Giovanni
Battista at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam directed by Vaclav Luks
with
Collegium 1704.
Recently he performed
in: Zaide at the Teatro
dell'Opera in
Rome; L'Orfeo in Cremona,
Ravenna and
Ferrara under Dantone; Il
Combattimento
di Tancredi e Clorinda in Cremona and Reggio Emilia under Corti; Enea in Caonia in Herne under
Montanari;
Arnalta Café a “stand-up comedy” of nursemaids from different operas by
17th-century composers such as Monteverdi, Cavalli, Melani, Cesti and
Steffa,
with Alessandro Quarta and Concerto Romano in Castiglioncello del
Trinoro (Monteverdi
Concert Season), Urbino, Rome, Cremona; Alessandro Scarlatti's Il
Giardino
di Rose/ La Santissima Vergine del Rosario at the Festival de
l'Abbaye in St. Michel en Tierache and in Malta; a series of baroque
concerts
at the Festival in Cremona and Urbino and Monteverdi's Madrigali with Rinaldo Alessandrini in Rome; L'incoronazione di
Poppea in Cremona, Como, Pavia, Pisa, Ravenna.
Plans include: L'Orfeo (secondo pastore) at the
Opernhaus in Zurich; Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine in
Cremona under Dantone.
Luca has recorded for
Christophorus, Arcana, Glossa and Sony DHM.