“…excellently focused, bronze-colored shining, expressive tenor”
– Süddeutsche Zeitung
27-year-old Kosovar Tenor Granit Musliu is among the most promising young singers of his generation. He received his vocal training at the University of Pristina and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is a former member of the opera studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper and is currently a part of the ensemble for the season 2024/25, a tenure he continues in season 2025/26.
The 2025/26 season holds several exciting debuts, beginning with Musliu’s first performances at Staatsoper Hamburg as Fenton in Falstaff followed by his role debut as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata at the Bayerische Staatsoper. The tenor makes his highly anticipated debut as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, a role he later debuts at Opéra de Lausanne.
“…excellently focused, bronze-colored shining, expressive tenor”
– Süddeutsche Zeitung
27-year-old Kosovar Tenor Granit Musliu is among the most promising young singers of his generation. He received his vocal training at the University of Pristina and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is a former member of the opera studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper and is currently a part of the ensemble for the season 2024/25, a tenure he continues in season 2025/26.
The 2025/26 season holds several exciting debuts, beginning with Musliu’s first performances at Staatsoper Hamburg as Fenton in Falstaff followed by his role debut as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata at the Bayerische Staatsoper. The tenor makes his highly anticipated debut as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, a role he later debuts at Opéra de Lausanne.
At the Bayerische Staatsoper, he furthermore appears as Matteo Borsa in Rigoletto, as Malcolm in Macbeth, in Il Trovatore he takes the role of Ruiz and in Turandot he sings Pong.
Musliu’s roles at the Bayerische Staatsoper in the 2024/25 season included: Malcolm in Macbeth, Rustighello in a new production of Lucrezia Borgia, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Edmondo in Manon Lescaut, Beppo in Pagliacci and Noble of Brabant in a new production of Lohengrin.
Musliu made his house debut as Cassio in Otello at Semperoper Dresden, where he later returned as Erster Edler in Lohengrin.
Highlights of recent seasons at the Bayerische Staatsoper include Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Harry in La Fanciulla Del West, Flavio in Norma, Ruiz in Il Trovatore and Festordner in a new production of Pique Dame, Jeppo Liverotto in Lucrezia Borgia, Adjutant in D. Tcherniakov’s new production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Ein Offizier in Ariadne auf Naxos, First Commissioner in Dialogues des Carmelites and Leibbojar in Boris Godunov. In the spring of 2022, Musliu jumped in as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor under Evelino Pidò, sharing the stage with Nadine Sierra and Juan Diego Florez.
Musliu has also appeared with the Deutsche Rhein-Philharmonie in Düsseldorf and Duisburg in Mozart’s Requiem, and in Hannover in Mozart’s Mass in C minor.
Granit Musliu has received a number of awards including the Grand Prix of the Ars Kosova Music Competition, 2nd prize in the 2020 Hamburg Mozart Prize and 2nd prize in the Jorgjia Truja Competition with an invitation to a masterclass with Anna Pirozzi.
© CSAM, August 2025
