Anyone who has ever heard Giuseppe De Luca, even for a few minutes, will find "noble" a very fitting definition of his voice. in the history of opera few singers have been able to characterise their performances with such linear, elegant singing, with such a remarkable blend of instinctive artistic creativity and perfect technical structure. In an age of revolutionary shifts in opera, an age which saw ever new, bold and taxing frontiers for the voice and dramatic roles, De Luca represented, in a career spanning more than fifty years, the flexible artist, the performer who constantly maintained a balance between tradition and modernity, a man who was fully aware of his own expressive means and one who was always able to steer in any sea towards the destinations indicated by the urgent demands of art and to do so with matchless style. This is why the "noble voice" of De Luca, even in his oldest recordings (the earliest date from 1902) sounds very up-to-date, still offering lessons in style and highly accomplished technique. Thus we can understand his infinite repertoire, his ability to move from one composer to another, from role to role, from one vocal type to the opposite, not only with unimpeachable respect for styles and a legendary performing talent, but most of all with a voice which maintained its beauty and soundness with kaleidoscopic stylistic rendition that grew and improved with an even greater wealth of shades even fifty years after his debut when he was over seventy years old.
