Born in Marseille, Luca Lombardo studied with M° Claudio Thiolas.
Singing Competitions:
Enrico Caruso in Milan, George Thill, Francisco Viñas in Barcelona.
Operatic debuts:
1989: Simon Boccanegra (Adorno) at the Opéra des Flandres, conducted by S. Cambreling; Cavalleria Rusticana (Turiddu)- Sydney, Melbourne conducted by C.F.Cillario.
1990-91: Simon Boccanegra (Adorno)- Genève, Otello (Cassio) - Paris, Opéra Bastille with P.Domingo conducted by M.W.Chung; Lodoiska (Floreski) - Milan, La Scala, conducted by R.Muti; Bohème (Rodolfo) – Glyndebourne Festival; Werther (Werther), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Hoffmann), Tosca (Cavaradossi), La traviata (Alfredo),Romeo et Guliette, Faust, Sigurd by Ernest Reyer - Montpellier.
1993-94: season opening: Der Fliegende Holländer (Steuermann)- Paris, Opéra Bastille, La Vestale (Cinna) – Milano, La Scala, conducted by R.Muti. Esclarmonde (Roland), Mireille (Vincent), La Bohème, Carmen (Don José) – Paris, Opéra Comique.
1996-97: Luisa Miller (Rodolfo) – Toronto, Canadian Opera Company, Carmen – Lyon, Les pecheurs des perles (Nadir) - Scottish Opera; La traviata - Liège, Opéra Royal de Wallonie.
1998: Luisa Miller, Traviata (Alfredo) – Frankfurt; Carmen (Don José) – Paris, Opéra Bastille.
1999: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Hoffmann) – Toulon,Livorno; Carmen – Paris, Opéra Comique; Le roi de Lahore (Alim) – St.Etienne; Carmen – Metz, Reims.
2000 Les Contes d’ Hoffmann – Trieste, Paris, Opéra Bastille; La damnation de Faust (Faust) – Bordeaux; Carmen, Traviata – Japan; Carmen – Carcassonne.
2001 Hérodiade (Jean) – St.Etienne, Avignon; Carmen – Toulouse.
2002: Romeo et Giuliette (Tybalt) – Orange with R.Alagna; Les contes d’Hoffmann, Carmen – Paris.
2003-2004: Carmen - Leipzig, Stade de France, Baalbeck (Libanon); La damnation de Faust – Nice and at the Ruhr Triennial, conducted by S.Cambreling; Sapho (Jean)-St.Etienne, Avignon; Werther - Massy; La vida breve (Paco) – Metz; Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton)- Leipzig.
2004-2005: Carmen – Toulon, Zénith; Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco (Carlo) – Rennes, Reims; Salome (Herodes) – Nice, Oscar Wilde’s version.
2006: Carmen – Turin, Rome.
2007: Louise - Paris; Carmen - St. Etienne and Lyon; Trovatore - Shanghai; Ariane - St Etienne; Paese del sorriso - Toulon.
2008: Louise - Paris, Carmen - Rome; Tosca - Macerata; Divorzio all’italiana - Nancy; Macbeth - Nizza; Carmen in tournèe.
2009: Les contes d’Hoffman - Nice, Singapore; Madama Butterfly – Venice, China; Carmen - Japan.
2010: Butterfly - Messina; Rusalka and Tosca – Nice; The cunning little vixen - Paris.
2011: Cavalleria Rusticana and Le cid - Marseille; Don Carlo - La Plata.
2012: Manon - Paris and New York; Macbeth - France; Carmen - Venice, Marseille and Nimes.
2013: Carmen – Venice and Marseille; Cleopatra – Marseille; L’heure espagnole - Lyon; Die Schöpfung and Manon – Toulouse; I puritani – Opera de Paris.
2014: Werther – Parigi; Nabucco – Orange and Sanxay; Das Land des Lächelns – Metz.
2015: Le Cid – Parigi; Turandot – Toulouse; La Juive – Nice; Werther - Trieste.
2016: La Juive – Nurnberg, Luisa Miller – Trieste, Carmen – Marseille, Das Land des Lächelns – Metz; Damnation de Faust - Santiago.
2017: Boris Godunov - Marseille; Lucia di Lammermoor and La Rondine – Toulouse.
2018/19 and 2019/20: Faust – Reims and Metz; Telasco in Fernando Cortez for the opening of the season with Opera di Firenze; Werther – Toulouse.
