Ervin
Ahmeti
Tenor
Tenor Ervin Ahmeti was born in Shkodër (Albania) and began taking singing lessons at the age of six. At twelve, he won first prize in the Bilbilat e vegjel te Shkodres kendojn singing competition in his hometown. In 2019, he began studying singing at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig with Prof. Berthold Schmid and Kammersänger Prof. Roland Schubert. He has appeared in various productions there, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ‹Die Zauberflöte›, Eduard Künneke's ‹Der Vetter aus Dingsda›, ‹Die Kluge› by Carl Orff, ‹A Midsummer Night’s Dream› by Benjamin Britten, ‹Dornröschen› by Engelbert Humperdinck, and ‹Das schlaue Füchslein› by Leoš Janáček. At the Leipzig Opera, he appeared in Richard Strauss's ‹Der Rosenkavalier› and Dmitri Shostakovich's ‹Lady Macbeth von Mzensk›, and at the Chemnitz Theater in Gustave Charpentier's ‹Louise›, Paul Abraham's ‹Viktoria und ihr Husar›, and ‹La traviata›. Ervin Ahmeti has been a recipient of the Germany Scholarship since September 2021. At Theater Basel, he is a member of the OperAvenir opera studio for the 2025/26 season and can be seen as Ramiro in ‹La Cenerentola› and Tamino in ‹Die Zauberflöte›, among other roles.