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.

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.

Current and future plans include: Lucia di Lammermoor in Lisbon; Werther (Albert) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and Carmen at the Arena di Verona; Falstaff (Ford) in Lille, Luxembourg and Caen; La Traviata in Nancy; Un ballo in maschera in Marseille; Nabucco in Toulouse.

March 2023