Born in Taranto, Lucio Gallo graduated from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ di Torino. He is a regular guest of the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro alla Scala, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Opernhaus Zürich among others.
He has worked with eminent conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Zubin Mehta.