Born in 1977 in Split, Croatia, Luciano Batinic began to study trumpet at the Music School of his home town in 1986. In 1995 he attended the faculty of dental medicine at the University of Zagreb getting his degree in 2004. At the same time he started to dedicate himself to singing, first under the guidance of the former leading tenor of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb Noni Žunec, then at the Music School Vatroslav Lisinski. He improved his vocal technique as well as the Verdian repertoire with the leading baritone of the Croatian National Theatre Vitomir Marof.

2002: he attended a two-year scholarship program at the Accademia d´Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo del Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

2004: he took part in a master class under the guidance of mezzosoprano Christa Ludwig and the director Graham Vick.

2005: first prize at International Competition for Young Singers Belcanto 2005 in Rijeka and a special prize Italianità for the best interpretation of Italian arias.

2006: he won the award of the Croatian National Theater named after the celebrated Croatian baritone Vladimir Ruždjak.

2002: Boris Godunov (Pimen); I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Lorenzo); Simon Boccanegra (Pietro); The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Old Convict); Don Carlo ( a Monk) – Zagreb,Croatian National Theatre.

2003: Rigoletto (Sparafucile) - Berlin, Komische Oper.

2004: La Parisina (Ernesto) - Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti.

2005: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (Narumov) – Milano, La Scala - Teatro degli Arcimboldi; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) under the baton of Enrique Mazzola; La Bohème (Colline); Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) – Zagreb, Croatian National Theatre.

2006: Il Trovatore (Ferrando) – Zagreb; Rigoletto (Sparafucile) – Berlin, Komische Oper; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) - Milano, Teatro degli Arcimboldi; Don Giovanni (Leporello) - Split; Don Giovanni - (Commendatore) – Zagreb. Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) in Zagreb and in Maribor; Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiem as well as the Croatian Glagolitic Requiem composed by the contemporary Croatian composer Igor Kuljerić - Zagreb; Léo Delibes' Lakmé (Nilakantha) - Maribor and Japan; Händel's Messiah with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra; Gounod’s Faust (Méphistophélès) in Maribor; Un ballo in maschera (Samuel) – Zagreb.

2007: Verdi's Requiem with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Ljubljana, Ballo in maschera - Zagreb; Bohème – Spalato.

2008: Rigoletto (Sparafucile) -  Berlin; Lucia di Lammermour (Raimondo) - Graz; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) - Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

2009: Don Carlo - tour in Tokyo with Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Concert repertoire:

Dvořák´s Stabat Mater - Bologna; Rossini´s Petite Messe Solennelle – Ljubljana, Slovenian National Theatre; Haydn’s Theresienmesse - Zagreb, Croatian Radio and Television Choir and the Croatian Chamber Orchestra.

2005: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under the baton of George Pehlivanian

2006: Wotan’s Farewell (Wagner’s Die Walküre) under the baton of Milan Horvat, both with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.