Appreciated by the “Sole 24 ORE” for “a voice so beautiful that it stands out in the melee of the stage: incisive, full, rounded, powerful and fresh”, Luca Salsi was born in San Secondo Parmense. He graduated in singing at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma, under the guidance of soprano Lucetta Bizza, and specialised with baritone Carlo Meliciani. His career has seen him perform on the world’s major stages: the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Washington National Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Los Angeles Opera, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Liceu de Barcelona, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Teatro Real in Madrid. He has collaborated with leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Daniele Gatti, James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, Nicola Luisotti, Renato Palumbo, Donato Renzetti, Michele Mariotti and Alberto Zedda, as well as with prestigious directors such as Robert Carsen, Hugo De Ana, Antony Minghella, Werner Herzog, Franco Zeffirelli, David McVicar and Damiano Michieletto.

He starred in two season openings at La Scala: in 2017 in Andrea Chénier and in 2019 in Tosca, on both occasions alongside Anna Netrebko and conducted by Riccardo Chailly. He also opened the Festival Verdi in Parma in Macbeth and the 2018/19 season of Teatro La Fenice, again in the part of Macbeth (directed by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Myung-whun Chung). He made his debut as Iago in Otello with the Berliner Philharmoniker and was Macbeth under the baton of Riccardo Muti (Florence and Ravenna), Rodrigo in Don Carlo at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and for the inauguration of the Teatro Real in Madrid, Carlo in Ernani at the Teatro alla Scala, Germont in La traviata and Scarpia in Tosca at the Opéra de Paris, Nabucco and Gérard in Andrea Chénier at the Wiener Staatsoper, Simon Boccanegra at the Salzburg Festival (with Valery Gergiev on the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic), and again Germont in La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In February 2020, he made his debut as Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. In November 2020, he sang the part of Jago for the first time in Italy in a new production at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, directed by Valerio Binasco and conducted by Zubin Mehta.

On 7th of December 2020, he took part in the Teatro alla Scala production of A riveder le stelle, directed by Davide Livermore and conducted by Riccardo Chailly, broadcast by dozens of television stations worldwide.

During 2021 and the first months of 2022, he took part in Macbeth at the Wiener Staastoper, Il Pirata and Il Trovatore at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Don Carlo at the Teatro Comunale in Modena, Rigoletto at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Fenice in Venice and at the Royal Opera House in London, Aida, La Traviata and Nabucco at the Arena in Verona, Tosca at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. 

He then opened the 2021/2022 Season of La Scala as the protagonist of Macbeth and sang the role again at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Plau de les Arts in Valencia. He then sang Un ballo in maschera at La Scala and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Muti, Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House in London and at the Metropolitan in New York, Nabucco at the Teatro Real Madrid and the Arena di Verona, and Aida at the Salzburg Festival.

He opened the 2023 season with Aida at the Metropolitan in New York and at the Wiener Staatsoper and then sang the new production of Macbeth at the Liceu in Barcelona and in concert at the San Carlo in Naples.