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Enkelejda Shkoza
Mezzo-soprano
Biography
Born in Tirana, Enkelejda Shkoza studied at the Conservatory of her hometown. She made her debut in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Strasbourg. Settling in Italy, she obtained a diploma in lyrical singing from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan and won first prize at the Leyla Gencer International Competition in Istanbul.
Since then, she has performed on major international opera stages in works such as Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, The Queen of Spades, The Damnation of Faust, La Cenerentola, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Carmen, Maometto II, Falstaff, La forza del destino, La straniera, Guillaume Tell, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Daughter of the Regiment, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, Il Trovatore, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Nabucco, Pelléas et Mélisande, Lakmé, La damoiselle élue, and Joan of Arc at the Stake.
She has performed Verdi's Requiem many times, as well as Rossini's Stabat Mater. She took part in the world premiere of Menotti's Missa Solemnis pro Jubileo Domini Nostri Tertio Millennio at the Colosseum in Rome.
More recently, she has performed as La Frugola, Suor Zelatrice, and Zita (Il trittico) at the Salzburg Festival, Azucena (Il trovatore) at the Verdi Festival in Parma, Ulrica / Madame Arvidson (Un ballo in maschera) in Tenerife and Marseille, Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Modena and Piacenza, Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff) in Athens, La Frugola (Il tabarro) at the Rome Opera, Emilia (Otello, in concert) in Aix-en-Provence and on tour with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Ježibaba (Rusalka) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) at the Royal Opera House in London.
During the 2024-2025 season, she will perform, among other roles, Solocha (The Night Before Christmas by Rimsky-Korsakov) in Frankfurt, Emilia at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Zita with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento.
At the Paris Opera: Madama Butterfly (Suzuki), 1998, 2011; The Tales of Hoffmann (Giulietta), 2000; Così fan tutte (Dorabella), 2003.
Currently in
- Opéra Bastille
- from 29 April to 28 May 2025
