Luca Lombardo began his vocal studies with C. Thiolas in Treviso before winning several international competitions: the Caruso Prize in Milan, the Georges Thill Prize, the Voix d’Or competition, the Viñas Competition in Barcelona…

After singing in Lucia di Lammermoor and Mireille in Rouen, he made his international debut in 1989 as Gabriele (Simon Boccanegra) at Opera Vlaanderen (alongside J. van Dam), then sang Cavalleria rusticana in Australia, in Sydney and Melbourne. The following season brought engagements in Simon Boccanegra at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Otello (Cassio) alongside Plácido Domingo at the Opéra Bastille and the Wiener Staatsoper, Cherubini’s Lodoïska at Glyndebourne, and Werther, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Tosca, La traviata, Roméo et Juliette, Faust, Un ballo in maschera and the title role in Sigurd at the Opéra de Montpellier.

For some twenty years he has appeared on Europe’s greatest opera stages in a wide and varied range of works. These include Der fliegende Holländer (the Steersman) at the Opéra Bastille; La vestale, Lodoïska and Otello (Cassio) at La Scala, Milan (conducted by R. Muti); Luisa Miller (Toronto, Frankfurt); Carmen (Lyon, Opéra Bastille, Rome, Toulon, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Tours, Bonn, Sanxay, Catania, Turin, Stade de France); Les Pêcheurs de perles (Scottish Opera); La traviata (Liège, Frankfurt, Munich, Sanxay); Manon (Opéra Bastille); La bohème at the Glyndebourne Festival, in Avignon and in Massy; Werther in concert under J.-C. Casadesus; Mireille, Esclarmonde, La bohème, Werther, Tosca and Carmen at the Opéra-Comique in Paris; La traviata (Frankfurt, Munich, Tel Aviv, Sanxay); Le Roi d’Ys (Metz); Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nice, Toulon, Trieste, Opéra Bastille); Luisa Miller (Frankfurt); Macbeth (Nice and Tours); La Juive (Nice); Le Roi de Lahore and Hérodiade in Saint-Étienne and Bordeaux; Il trovatore at Sanxay; Giovanna d’Arco in Hong Kong; Les Vêpres siciliennes (Henri) at the Opéra Bastille; and Cavalleria rusticana (Turiddu) in Marseille.

His most recent engagements include Werther (Schmidt), Carmen (Remendado) and Lucia di Lammermoor (Normanno) at the Capitole de Toulouse, Boris Godunov (Shuisky) at the Opéra de Marseille, and Faust (the old Faust) in Reims and Metz.

In 2023 Luca Lombardo was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.