Gezim Myshketa

is born in Albania in 1982.  He graduated at the Arrigo Boito Music Conservatory in Parma (Italy) under the guidance of Giuliano Ciannella and Lelio Capilupi.  After winning the As.Li.Co. competition in 2006, he made his debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni on a tour in Italy and at the Opéra de Massy. 

At the beginning of his career, Mr Myshketa performed: Orphée et Eurydice (Amore – La Guida) and L'Elisir d'Amore at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, in Massy, at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and in Rome under the baton of Bruno Campanella. He also performed: Le Villi, Iris, Madama Butterfly, Trouble in Tahiti and Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Die Lustige Witwe (Danilo) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico); Carmen at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d'Almaviva) and Don Giovanni in Palm Beach; Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Bilbao;  Rodelinda (Garibaldo) at the Valle d'Itria Festival; and Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.  Past engagements also include: Maria Stuarda in Piacenza and Modena; Le Convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali (Biscroma) and I Pazzi per Progetto (Venanzio) in Zurich; Cléopatre at the Salzburg Festival; I Puritani and Le Villi at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislav; Carmen (Escamillo) in Novara and at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Gazza Ladra in Verona; Gianni Schicchi in Trieste and in Pordenone; La Battaglia di Legnano (Rolando) at the Teatro Regio for the Festival Verdi in Parma; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Treviso and Ferrara; I Puritani in Bratislava; Ali Pascha von Janina in Tirana; Turandot in Cagliari.

Gezim Myshketa has recently gained great successes singing Lord Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor in Marseille; Lord Guglielmo Cecil in Maria Stuarda and Fra Melitone in La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Don Giovanni (title role) in a new production by Graham Vick for the AsLiCo circuit and on tour also in Jesi, Fermo and Bolzano; Escamillo in Carmen at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in St. Gallen; La Traviata in Hamburg; Turandot in Toulouse; Ezio in Attila at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Michele Mariotti conducting and Daniele Abbado directing).

After his successful debut as Ford in Falstaff at the Stuttgart Staatsoper in 2013, Mr. Myshketa started a constant collaboration with this Opera House, he sang: Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Marcello in La Bohème, Escamillo in Carmen, Valentin in Faust, Conte d'Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sir Riccardo in I Puritani.

In 2016 he performed as Giorgio Germont in La Traviata in Leipzig, afterwards he was invited in the Leipzig Theatre to sang in the productions of Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermmoor.  Mr Myshketa has recently performed in Simon Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani) in Antwerp and Naples; La Rondine in Toulouse; Cavalleria Rusticana in Bologna; I Pagliacci in Oman with Opera di Roma.

He collaborated with such renowned conductors as Philippe Auguin, Frédéric Chaslin, Daniel Oren, Nello Santi, Bruno Campanella, Paolo Arrivabeni, Michele Mariotti, Maurizio Benini and such directors as Robert Carsen, Giancarlo del Monaco, Pierluigi Pizzi, Damiano Michieletto, Graham Vick and Calixto Bieito.

Future plans include: La Forza del Destino Opernhaus Zurich,Cavalleria Rusticana in Turin, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Cagliari, Beatrix Cenci (Ginastera) in Strasbourg, Falstaff in Lille, Luxembourg and Caen; mantaining his collaboration with Stuttgard he will sing in Faust and I Puritani and in Leipzig he will be in La Traviata, La Bohème and Carmen (new production).

jUNE 2018.