Albert Memeti

Albert Memeti

tenor

Graduated with honors from the Music Academy of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań in 2017 in the class of Professor Wojciech Maciejowski. In the 2015/2016 season, he was a member of the Opera Academy at the Grand Theater of the National Opera in Warsaw. In 2016, he became a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture for outstanding achievements. From September 2017 a soloist of the Opera in Graz in Austria.
He made his professional debut at the Bydgoszcz Opera Festival during the first year of his studies in the role of the blacksmith in de Falla’s La vida breve. On the concert platform, Albert Memeti has collaborated with the Philharmonic in Poznań, the Pomeranian Philharmonic and the Polish Music Film Orchestra. In 2015 he made his debut at the Polish Theatre, Poznan as Gelindo, L’impresario, a role he later repeated in his debut at the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre, Kalisz. In the same year he also made his debut at the Teatr Wielki in Poznan as Sailor, Dido and Aeneas. During the 2016/2017 season he debuted at the Grand Theatre in Posnan in the following roles: Malcolm, Macbeth; Alfred, Die Fledermaus; and Bojar Chruschov, Boris Godunov.
Since the start of the 2017/18 season Albert has been a member of the Ensemble in Oper Graz, where he is singing Don Curzio in „Le nozze di Figaro”, Belfiore and Zefirino/Gelsomino in „Il viaggio a Reims”, Beppo in R. Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci", 3 Jew in "Salome" by R. Strauss, Artur in "Lucia di Lamermoor" by G. Donizetti. He sang as a guest as Lord Arturo in G. Donizetti's opera „Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Teatro Verdi in Trest in the 2017/2018 season. In July and August 2018 he debuted with the role of Don Ramiro in G. Cinderella by G. Rossini at the 44th Festival "Della Valle d’Itria" in Italy. In the 2019/2020 season, he is singing the role of in Count Lerma in "Don Carlos" by G. Verdi, Alfred in "Fledermaus", Schneider in "Konigskinder" by E. Humperdinck and Shepherd in "Oedipus Rex" by I. Stravinski at the Opera in Graz.
Albert Memeti’s prizes include: Winner of the Imrich Godin’s XVII International Vocal Competition in Vrable, Slovakia (2015); Finalist and Special Prize ‘Ferrucio Tagliavini’ at the XXII Deutschlandsberg and Oper Graz International Vocal Competition 2016; Finalist, Special Prize and special scholarships at the Riccardo Zandonai Musica Riva Festival XXIII 2016 International Competition for young opera singers in Riva del Garda, Italy; finalist and 4 Special Prizes at the 2016 Golden Voices International Vocal Competition, Warsaw; third prize and the Magdeburg Opernhaus director’s prize at the 2017 XVIIth Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Festival and Competition; and third prize and the Dr. Janko Blaho special prize for an aspiring tenor at the 2017 22nd Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský International Vocal Competition.