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                                Gezim Myshketa - Giorgio Germont* 
                            
                                After his successes as Escamillo in Carmen in Stuttgart, as Frà Melitone in La 
                                Forza del Destino at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and as Ezio in 
                                Attila for the opening night of the season at the Teatro Comunale in 
                                Bologna, Gezim Myshketa will make his company debut in Leipzig starring in 
                                Verdi’s renowned title, which he had already sang in Stuttgart and Hamburg. 
                                Particularly interesting is his collaboration with the Staatstheater in 
                                Stuttgart where in the past months he also performed Falstaff and La Bohème. 
                                Other recent engagements include: Carmen at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin 
                                and in St. Gallen and Turandot at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
                             
                                
                                Mr. Myshketa regularly works with conductors as: Philippe Auguin, Bruno 
                                Campanella, Diego Fasolis, Will Humburg, Michele Mariotti, Daniel Oren and Nello 
                                Santi; and such directors as Daniele Abbado, Robert Carsen, Dante Ferretti, 
                                Pierluigi Pizzi and Graham Vick. 
                                Plans include: Simon 
                                Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani) in Antwerp; I Puritani (Sir Riccardo 
                                Forth), Faust (Valentin), Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte) and revivals 
                                of La Bohème (Marcello) in Stuttgart; La Rondine (Rambaldo) at the 
                                Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. |