Biography

After studying at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Jussi Myllys made his debut as Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni in Turku and immediately at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the ensemble at the Frankfurt Opera, where he performed roles such as Vašek/Die Sellte Bride, Tamino/The Magic Flute, Pedrillo/The Abduction from the Seraglio, Jaquino/Fidelio, Belfiore/La finta Giardiniera and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni.

Jussi Myllys has also quickly established himself as a concert singer. His concert repertoire includes works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Mozart, as well as modern works by Wolfgang Rihm, for example. He works regularly with orchestras such as the Gürzenich Orchestra, the International Bach Academy Stuttgart, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the most renowned ensembles in his home country. Jussi Myllys is also a welcome guest as a lieder singer, most recently at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2021, or with the tenor part in the chamber music ensemble lied23, and with a recital at the VOICES Festival 2021 at Gut Holzhausen, where he performed works by Beethoven, Liszt and Sibelius performed alongside Manuel Lange.

Since the 2009/10 season he has been a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, where the versatile tenor has sung the title role of Titus in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, Tamino/The Magic Flute, Belmonte/The Entführung aus dem Seraglio, Sir Richard Fenton/The Merry Wives of Windsor, Rinuccio/ Gianni Schicchi, Alfred/ Die Fledermaus, Singer/Der Rosenkavalier, Matteo/Arabella, Froh/ Rheingold and Arturo/ Lucia di Lammermoor sang.

Guest engagements have taken him to renowned opera houses and international festivals, including the Opéra Bastille in Paris (Ferrando/Così fan tutte), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (including Jaquino/Fidelio and Steuermann/The Flying Dutchman), the Semperoper in Dresden (Tamino/The Magic Flute and Belmonte/ Entführung a.d. Seraglio), the Komische Oper Berlin (Tamino/ Magic Flute), to the Finnish National Opera Helsinki (Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Lenski/Eugen Onegin, Hirte/ Oedipus Rex), the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (Tamino/ The Magic Flute), at the Theater Basel (Lucio Silla/Lucio Silla) as well as the Edinburgh Festival and the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Belmonte/The Entführung aus dem Seraglio, Cassio/Otello).

His keen interest in contemporary music, rarely performed composers and demanding directorial concepts resulted in invitations to premieres and premieres at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Frankfurt Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and at his parent company in Düsseldorf, with such diverse repertoire as: Sali/A Village Romeo and Juliet (Comp. Frederick Delius), Adam /Tragödie des Teufels, (Comp. Peter Eötvös), Hippolyt/Phaedra (Comp. Hans Werner Henze), Tammu/ Babylon (Comp. Jörg Widmann), Giovanni/Schade, dass she was a whore (comp. Anno Schreier), Castle in the Water/ Tenor (comp. Aulis Sallinen) and most recently the title role of a chamber opera by Boris Blacher, Romeo and Juliet, which was allowed to appear as a streaming production in the Corona lockdown. The versatile tenor has also made a name for himself with premieres as Max/Der Freischütz at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg and as Florestan/Fidelio at the Espoo City Theater in Finland. In the seasons 21/22 and 22/23 he will be guest at the Bonn Opera with another intermediate role, the role of Konrad in Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Ein Feldlager in Schlesien". A recording is already planned. He was also a guest at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and made his house debut at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam as Max in Der Freischütz under the baton of Patrick Hahn and the direction of Kirill Serebrennikov.

This season at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Jussi Myllys sings, among others, Tamino/Magic Flute, Arturo/Lucia di Lammermoor, Gabriel von Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni. In early 2023 he will make his role debut as Erik in The Flying Dutchman at Tampere Opera in Finland.

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