Chilean-Swedish mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini studied classical singing, opera, and early music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under Rita Dams, Jill Feldman, Michael Chance, Peter Kooij and Diane Forlando. In 2009, she completed her master's degree with a focus on 17th-century Italian repertoire. Her opera repertoire includes the roles of Bradamante in Luigi Rossi's ‘Il palazzo incantato’, Dafne in Peri's ’L'Euridice’, Messaggiera in Monteverdi's ‘Orfeo’, Enone in Bontempi's opera ‘Il paride’, Amastre in Handel's ‘Serse’, and many others.
Her baroque repertoire includes J. S. Bach's oratorios and several roles from Handel's works, such as Matilde in 'Lotario', Galatea in 'Aci, Galatea e Polifemo', and Cleofe in 'La Resurrezione' with the ensemble Contrasto Armonico.
In 2008, she sang Messagera in Monteverdi's ‘Orfeo’ with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur and the ensemble La Fenice under the direction of Jean Tubéry at the Vantaa Baroque Festival, Festival Baroque de Pontoise, in Bilbao, and Warsaw. In 2009 and 2010, she toured various theaters in Germany and Poland in the role of Amastre in Handel's ‘Serse’ with the Lautten Compagney under Wolfgang Katschner.
She sang the role of Enone in the opera ‘Il paride’ in Potsdam in 2011 and in Innsbruck in 2012 under the baton of Christina Pluhar in a production by Christoph von Bernuth. In 2011, she sang the role of Amastre in Handel's ‘Serse’ at the Theater an der Wien under Jean-Christophe Spinosi, and in 2012, she sang the roles of Volupia and Didone in a production of Cavalli's ‘Egisto’ directed by Benjamin Lazar at the Opéra-Comique and the Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie with La Poème Harmonique. In 2011 and 2012, she also took part in the staged production ‘Combattimento’ together with L'Arpeggiata and the Sicilian puppeteer Mimmo Cutticchio at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival.
Together with L'Arpeggiata, Luciana Mancini performed in programs such as Cavalieri's ‘La rappresentatione di anima e di corpo’ at the Flanders Festival in Bruges, the Festival de Música Sacra in Cuenca, the Festival de Semana Santa in Valladolid, and the Festival de Sablè, as well as the programs ‘Los Imposibles’, ‘Via Crucis’, and ‘All'Improviso’ in various European cities, and participated in the creation of the program ‘La Notte d'Amore’ with Dominique Visse at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival. In 2010, under the direction of Christina Pluhar, she recorded Claudio Monteverdi's ‘Vespro della Beata Vergine’ for Virgin/EMI Classics and performed the work in Poissy, Metz, Ghent, and Barcelona. Luciana Mancini enjoyed remarkable success together with L'Arpeggiata in 2011 with the recording of the new CD ‘Los Pajaros perdidos’, on which she shines with her love for the traditional repertoire of South America. Since the release of the CD, she has received great acclaim from audiences at concert halls and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, the Heidelberg Spring, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Salle Gaveau, and Théâtre Châtelet in Paris.