Ефе Къшлълъ

Born in Gölcük, in the province of Kocaeli, in 1970, Efe Kışlalı began singing lessons with the Turkish bass Ayhan Baran and took his master's degree in the opera department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory with Güler Keskinkaya, working also with the Italian baritone Licinio Montefusco. He joined the Istanbul State Opera in 1998 and moved from Mozart into dramatic repertoire — Samson, Otello, Radamès, Des Grieux — sung in Turkey and abroad, including at the Latvian National Opera and the Prague State Opera. He has also sung in premières of Turkish operas. He entered the company in 1998 as a chorister, singing Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail that year, and became a soloist in 2000. In 2021 he created the title role in Hasan Uçarsu's Sinan in Istanbul, and his guest work also includes Varna State Opera.