He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Un Barnabotto in La Gioconda, and has since appeared in numerous productions with the company, including The Nose, Ariadne auf Naxos, Khovanshchina, Billy Budd, La fanciulla del West, Adriana Lecouvreur, Macbeth, The Gambler, Salome, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Madama Butterfly, and Tannhäuser, among others.

Lugo’s extensive operatic engagements include performances with prominent companies such as San Francisco Opera, Vancouver Opera, Washington National Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Nashville Opera, Virginia Opera, and several leading opera companies in his native Puerto Rico.

Equally accomplished on the concert stage, Lugo has performed major works of the choral and symphonic repertoire, including Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette. He has appeared with orchestras such as the New Mexico Symphony, Puerto Rico Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, and the Opera Orchestra of New York—singing Jacopo Loredano in I due Foscari under the baton of Eve Queler. Additionally, he has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein.

Lugo made his New York recital debut in 2006 at the Liederkranz Foundation. He was also featured as José Tripaldi in the acclaimed Lincoln Center Festival production of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, directed by Peter Sellars, as part of the celebrated series The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov.

Throughout his career, Lugo has had the privilege of working with many of the world’s most distinguished conductors, including:
Christopher Allen, Christian Badea, Anthony Barrese, Beltrand de Billy, Leon Botstein, Joseph Colaneri, Leslie Dala, John DeMain, Victor DeRenzi, Plácido Domingo, Guillermo Figueroa, Valerio Galli, Alan Gilbert, Valery Gergiev, Vivian Ip, Roberto Kalb, Kamal Khan, Eugene Kohn, Glen Lewis, James Levine, Robert Lyall, Nicola Luisotti, Joseph Mechavich, Gareth Morrell, Tito Muñoz, Paul Nadler, Steven Osgood, Roselín Pabón, Enrique Patrón de Rueda, Eve Queler, Donald Runnicles, Adam Turner, Robert Tweeten, Maximiano Valdés, William Vendice, Antony Walker, Steven White, and Dean Williamson.