Gezim Myshketa was born in Albania in 1982. He graduated from the
Arrigo Boito Conservatoire in Parma under the guidance of Giuliano Ciannella
and Lelio Capilupi. After winning the AsLiCo competition in 2006, he made
his debut in
Don Giovanni (title role) on a tour in Italy and at
the Opéra de Massy.
At the beginning of his career, Mr Myshketa sang 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; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte) and Don
Giovanni (title role) in Palm Beach; Giulio Cesare
(Achilla) in Bilbao; Rodelinda (Garibaldo) at the Festival della
Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo
Albiani) 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 in
Bratislava; Carmen (Escamillo) in Novara and in Macerata; La
Gazza Ladra in Verona; Gianni Schicchi in Trieste and in
Pordenone; La Battaglia di Legnano (Rolando) for the Festival
Verdi in Parma; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) in Treviso and
Ferrara; Ali Pascha von Janina in Tirana; Turandot in
Cagliari.
After his successful debut as Ford in Falstaff at the
Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2013, Mr. Myshketa started an ongoing
collaboration with this theater, where he sang: La Traviata, La
Bohème, Carmen, Faust (Valentin), Le Nozze
di Figaro (Conte), I Puritani, Iphigénie en Tauride
(Thoas).
Among his most recent successes: Macbeth at the Grange Festival
in London, in Cagliari, Kaiserlautern and for the Rete Lirica delle
Marche;Carmen and Turandot at the Arena in Verona; Les
Vêpres siciliennes in Palermo; Lucia di Lammermoor in
Leipzig and Marseille; Maria Stuarda and La Forza del
Destino (Fra’ Melitone) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Don
Giovanni (title role) in a new production by Graham Vick for
OperaLombardia and in Jesi, Fermo and Bolzano; Carmen in Berlin
(Deutsche Oper), Leipzig and St. Gallen; La Traviata in Hamburg,
Leipzig and Tokyo; Turandot in Toulouse; Madama Butterfly in
Leipzig; Attila in Bologna (Michele Mariotti conducting and
Daniele Abbado directing); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo) and Rigoletto
(title role) in Montpellier; La Rondine in Naples and
Toulouse; Luisa Miller in Marseille; La Forza del destino
(Don Carlo) in Toulouse; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani) in
Antwerp and Naples; Cavalleria Rusticana in Bologna and Turin; Pagliacci
(Silvio) in Oman with the Rome Opera; La forza del destino
(Fra’ Melitone) at the Zurich Opernhaus; Carmen in Dresden and
Leipzig; La Bohème in Leipzig; Ginastera’s Beatrix Cenci
(Count Francesco) in Strasbourg; Guglielmo Tell (title role) in
Como, on tour in Italy, and in Tokyo; Lucia di Lammermoor in
Lisbon; Werther (Albert) and La Rondine at the Teatro
Filarmonico in Verona and Carmen at the Arena di Verona; Falstaff
(Ford) in Lille, Luxembourg and Caen; La Traviata in Nancy;
Le Villi at the Regio in Turin; Un ballo in maschera in
Marseille; and Nabucco in Toulouse.
He collaborated with such renowned conductors as Paolo Arrivabeni,
Philippe Auguin, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Frédéric Chaslin,
Daniel Oren, Michele Mariotti, Nello Santi, and such directors as Robert
Carsen, Giancarlo del Monaco, Pierluigi Pizzi, Damiano Michieletto, Graham
Vick and Calixto Bieito.
Future plans include: Maria Stuarda (Lord William Cecil) at the
Staatsoper Hamburg; Dall'Ongaro's Robin Hood (Tuck) at the Royal
Opera House in Muscat; La Traviata (Giorgio Germont) at the Teatro
Real in Madrid and Le Villi (William Wulf) at the
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.
March 2025