Biography

Finnish-born lyric tenor Jussi Myllys started his international career in 2005, singing Don Ottavio in Turku and at the Komische Oper Berlin. He studied at the Sibelius Academy and has received extensive training both as a singer and a dancer.

From 2006-2009, Myllys was an ensemble member at Oper 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 performing the main roles of the Mozart repertoire and broadening his repertoire towards Verdi and Strauss. In March 2010, he gave his debut at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in a new opera by Peter Eötvös, Tragedy of the Devil, returning in the following seasons as Jacquino/Fidelio and Tammu in the world premiere of Jörg Widmann`s Babylon.
As a guest he performed at the Opéra Bastille, Frankfurt Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Komische Oper Berlin, in Dresden, Helsinki, and at the Edinburgh Festival in roles such as Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Narraboth/Salome, Tom Rakewell/The Rake’s Progress, and Fenton/Falstaff.

Highlights of the past seasons include Tamino, Sir Richard Fenton/Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and Singer/Der Rosenkavalier with Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Tamino at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Finnish National Opera Helsinki, and the Edinburgh International Festival, Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte at Opéra Bastille, the title role in Lucio Silla at Theater Basel, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opera Frankfurt, Lenski/Eugene Onegin and Ferrando at the Finnish National Opera, Belmonte as well as Sallinen’s Castle in the Water at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and concerts with the Bachakademie Stuttgart.

Myllys is particularly active as a concert singer, 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: Deus Passus), a Japan tour with the RIAS Kammerchor, and concerts in Prague, Riga (under Peter Schreier), Geneva (Haydn: Missa Cellensis), and Kuopio (Haydn: The Creation) as well as a concertante performance of Widmann’s Babylon/Tammu at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, also under the baton of Markus Stenz.

In the season 2018/19 following engagements await Jussy Myllys at Deutsche Oper am Rhein: Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Matteo/Arabella, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail as well as the role of Giovanni in the world premiere of Anno Schreier‘s Schade, dass sie eine Hure war.
In addition to the projects at his parent house, Myllys will be making his debut as Max in the new production of Der Freischütz under the baton of Patrick Lange on the stage of the Opéra national du Rhin and going on a tour through the Netherlands with the Nederlands Kamerkoor and Mozart’s Requiem.

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