A graduate at Conservatorio S.Cecilia in Roma, Luca has also
attended masterclasses on madrigal singing with Alessandro Quarta and
Rinaldo Alessandrini in Urbino (International Courses of Early Music
Monteverdi's monody). 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.
In 2011, he took part in Sigiswald Kuijken's challenging rendition of
Bach's B-minor Mass, performed one voice per part. In the same year, 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.
In 2012 he was Monostato in the Italian version of Die Zauberflote at
Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
In 2013, he sang in 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) as
well as Giuseppe d'Arimatea in Pasquini's La sete di Christo, presented
on three different occasions for major European festivals. With the
same ensemble, he also sang as Oloferne in Scarlatti's Giuditta at
Teatro Olimpico in Rome (2014), Inverno in La Gloria di Primavera,
again at Wiener Konzerthaus (Grosser Saal, 2015), and Consigliero in
Stradella's San Giovanni Battista at Teatro Argentina, Rome (2016).
He has worked with Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano, with
whom he sang as Anfinomo in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
(Teatro Regio, Turin). In Concerto Italiano Korean tour he also sang
Vespro di San Marco (Burgos, Spain) and Vespro della Beata Vergine.
With Claudio Cavina's Venexiana ensemble he toured in Japan, performing
madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo.
In 2015 he was Teofilo in Stradella's San Giovanni Crisostomo with
Andrea De Carlo's Mare Nostrum ensemble, with which he also sang in
Stradella's Santa Pelagia, the year after.
With Antonio Florio and his Cappella Neapolitana he performed and
recorded for Glossa La Passione secondo Giovanni by Gaetano Veneziano,
in 2016.
In April 2016, he was San 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 Filarmonica Romana.
In February 2017, he took part as Pastore and Spirito in Monteverdi's
Orfeo at Teatro Regio, Turin; in April he was King Ahasuerus in an
on-stage rendition of Handel's Esther at Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, and
in June he performed as Nettuno in La divisione del mondo by Legrenzi
at Theater Kiel.
In 2018-19 he took part as Anfinomo in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse
in Patria for Reate Festival, as Arasse in Vinci's Siroe, Re di Persia
at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Damon in Handel's Acis&Galatea at
Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, as Lucano in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione
di Poppea at Teather Kiel and as Corimbo in Melani's L'Empio Punito,
again for the Reate Festival, and as Emilio in Mozart's Il Sogno di
Scipione in Venice. He took part in three Operas by Stradella: as
Celindo in La Doriclea, as Rosalbo in Amare&fingere and as Simona
in Il Trespolo tutore. In january 2020 he sang the part of 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; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e
Clorinda in Cremona and Reggio Emilia; Enea in Caonia in Herne. Plans
include series of baroque concerts at the Festival in Cremona and
Urbino and Monteverdi's Madrigali with Rinaldo Alessandrini in Rome.
Luca has recorded for Christophorus, Arcana, Glossa and Sony DHM.
February 2022