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                                Gezim Myshketa - Sir Riccardo Forth
                             
                                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, Carmen, La Bohème. Other
                                recent engagements include: Carmen at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in
                                St. Gallen; Turandot at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; La Traviata
                                in Leipzig; La Forza del Destino in Salerno Daniel Oren conducting. 
                                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;
                                Faust (Valentin), Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte) and revivals of Carmen
                                (Escamillo) in Stuttgart; La Rondine (Rambaldo) at the Théâtre du Capitole
                                in Toulouse; Simon Boccanegra at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. |