Biography

Following his studies at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Jussi Myllys started his international career in 2005, singing Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni in Turku and at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2006-2009, he was an ensemble member at Opera Frankfurt performing roles such as Vašek/The Bartered Bride, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Pedrillo/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Jaquino/Fidelio, Belfiore/La finta Giardiniera, and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni.

In 2009 he joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he took on roles including Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Sir Richard Fenton/Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Sänger/Der Rosenkavalier, Matteo/Arabella and Rinuccio/Gianni Schicchi, as well as Giovanni in the world premiere of Anno Schreier‘s Schade, dass sie eine Hure war.

Guest engagements led him to renowned houses and festivals, such as the Opéra Bastille Paris (Ferrando/Così fan tutte), Bavarian State Opera Munich (Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Tammu in the world premiere of Widmann‘s Babylon), Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin (Tamino/Die Zauberflöte), Finnish National Opera Helsinki (Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Lensky/Eugen Onegin), Opéra national du Rhin (Max/Der Freischütz), Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (Tamino/Die Zauberflöte), Theater Basel (Lucio Silla/Lucio Silla), as well as the Edinburgh Festival and Savonlinna Opera Festival (Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Cassio/Otello).

Furthermore, Jussi Myllys is sought after as a concert artist, his repertoire including works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Concert engagements resulted in collaborations with the Gürzenich Orchestra under Markus Stenz and the Bachakademie Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling (Rihm‘s Deus Passus), a Japan tour with the RIAS Kammerchor, and concerts in Prague, Riga (under Peter Schreier), Geneva (Haydn‘s Missa Cellensis), and Kuopio (Haydn‘s The Creation), a tour through the Netherlands with the Nederlands Kamerkoor and Mozart’s Requiem, as well as a concertante performance of Widmann’s Babylon/Tammu at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, also under the baton of Markus Stenz.

Upcoming engagements at Deutsche Oper am Rhein include Froh/Das Rheingold under the baton of Axel Kober, Alfred/Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni. In addition to the projects at his parent house, he will sing Tamino/Die Zauberflöte under Ainārs Rubiķis at Komische Oper Berlin, Lensky/Eugene Onegin and Shepherd in Stravinsky‘s Oedipus Rex under Eivind Gullberg Jensen at Finnish National Opera Helsinki.

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