Graduated from the "S. Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome, Luca also pursued
advanced studies with Alessandro Quarta and Rinaldo Alessandrini in
Urbino. In 2007, he was among the winners of the "Monteverdi Competition"
for the Centenary of L'Orfeo in Mantua, which led him to perform
the opera in Prague. He has collaborated with Collegium Vocale Gent,
Sigiswald Kuijken, and the Ghislieri Choir and Consort led by Giulio
Prandi. He co-founded the ensemble AbChordis, with which he has performed
at many prestigious festivals.
A member of Alessandro Quarta's ensemble Concerto Romano, he has
performed the role of Jonas in Carissimi’s oratorio of the same name;
Joseph of Arimathea in Pasquini’s La sete di Christo; Holofernes
in Giuditta and Winter in La Gloria di Primavera by
Scarlatti; and the Counsellor in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista.
He has worked with Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano as Anfinomo in
Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria at the Teatro Regio in
Turin and on tour in Spain with the Vespro di San Marco and Vespro
della Beata Vergine.
With Antonio Florio and Cappella Neapolitana, he performed and recorded
for Glossa Veneziano’s La Passione secondo Giovanni, and took part
in the production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Teatro Regio in
Turin in the roles of Shepherd and Spirit.
He performed the role of Giovanni in Handel’s La Resurrezione,
recorded by Swiss Radio RSI with Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti.
Among other recent engagements, he has sung the roles of King Ahasuerus
in Handel’s Esther and Damon in Acis and Galatea at the
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; Neptune in Legrenzi’s La divisione del
mondo and Lucan in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea at
Theater Kiel under the direction of Quarta; Anfinomo in Monteverdi’s Il
ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and Corimbo in Melani’s L'Empio
Punito at the Reate Festival; Arasse in Vinci’s Siroe, Re di
Persia at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; and Emilio in Mozart’s Il
Sogno di Scipione in Venice with Sardelli.
He has taken part in numerous operas by Stradella with Andrea De Carlo
and Mare Nostrum Ensemble: Teofilo in San Giovanni Crisostomo;
Celindo in La Doriclea; Rosalbo in Amare e fingere; and
Simona in Il Trespolo tutore.
He performed as the Counsellor in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista
at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam conducted by Vaclav Luks with Collegium
1704.
He recently appeared in: Zaide at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma;
L’Orfeo in Zurich and in Cremona, Ravenna, and Ferrara with
Dantone; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in Cremona and
Reggio Emilia with Corti; Enea in Caonia in Herne with Montanari;
Arnalta Café, a stand-up comedy of nursemaids drawn from various
17th-century operas with Concerto Romano; Il Giardino di Rose by
Alessandro Scarlatti in Malta; Monteverdi’s Madrigals with Rinaldo
Alessandrini in Rome; L'incoronazione di Poppea on tour in Italy;
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Monteverdi Festival
in Cremona and in Fez; Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria at the
Ravenna Festival; and Il trionfo dell’onore at the Teatro Malibran
in Venice.
Luca has recorded for Christophorus, Arcana, Glossa, and Sony DHM.
August 2025