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 and on tour in Italy; 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.
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: Un ballo in maschera in
Marseille; Nabucco in Toulouse; Guillaume Tell in
Tokyo; Maria Stuarda in Hamburg and La Traviata in
Madrid.
June 2024