Gëzim Myshketa

Myshketa won the As.Li.Co competition in 2006 and made his debut with the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in the title role of Don Giovanni; the Francesco Paolo Tosti international chamber-music prize followed. Born in Albania in 1982 and trained at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma, he has built his career on the Italian and French repertoire — Escamillo, Ford, Giorgio Germont, Rossini and Bellini roles, Danilo in Die lustige Witwe. At the Arena di Verona he has sung in Carmen and Turandot; elsewhere he has appeared at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Salzburg Festival and the Royal Opera House Muscat, and he took the title role of Guillaume Tell at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. He works as a stage director as well. Durrës is his birthplace, and his teachers in Parma were Giuliano Ciannella and Lelio Capilupi; with the Lombard circuit and at the Opéra de Massy he sang Leporello as well as the Don, and the Tosti prize came in 2008. Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth have since entered the repertoire, and he has appeared at the Stuttgart State Opera. He was a member of the Stuttgart opera ensemble from 2014 to 2017. He sang Rambaldo in La rondine at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in 2024.