Giorgio Lamberti spent his early years in Bolzano, in the Italian South Tyrol, where he studied violin and singing at the Conservatorio di Musica Claudio Monteverdi. In 1963 he won a competition at La Fenice in Venice and the following year made his début in Rome with the rôle of Arrigo in I vespri siciliani. In 1964 he sang Radames in Verdi’s Aida in Chicago, Don Jose in Baltimore, and Manrico in Verdi’s Il trovatore in Cairo. Appearances followed as Don Jose in 1970 at the Arena of Verona and in I vespri siciliani at La Scala. He made his début at the Vienna State Opera in 1973, at the Berlin Deutscher Oper as Radames, sang Gabriel Adorno at the Bavarian State Opera and Calaf opposite Birgit Nilsson in Turandot at the Geneva Grand Theatre.

Giorgio Lamberti appeared for the first time at the New York Metropolitan Opera in the rôle of Cavaradossi in 1974 and sang one of his favorite rôles, Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West at the Teatro colon in Buenos Aires. He has since then appeared in opera-houses in many countries and his repertoire includes some seventy-two operas, ranging in period from Gluck to Leoncavallo. His recordings include Ernani, I Lombardi, L’africaine, Il tabarro, La gioconda, Respighi’s Belfagor, Tosca and Carmen.