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.

Management

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Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14

Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S. B minor mass
  Cantatas BWV 4, 36, 61, 80
  Christmas Oratorio (1-6)
  Magnificat
  St. John Passion / Evangelist, Arias
  St. Matthew Passion / Evangelist, Arias
Beethoven Mass in C
  Symphony no. 9
Berlioz Roméo et Juliette
Chausson Poème de l´amour et de la mer
Händel Messiah
  Ode for St. Cecily
Haydn Cäcilienmesse
  Harmoniemesse
  The Creation
  The Seasons
Lloyd Webber Requiem
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Mäntyjärvi Vain Sana –Kantate (UA)
Mendelssohn Elias
  Lobgesang (2. Sinfonie)
Mozart C minor mass
  Coronation Mass
  Requiem
Rihm Deus Passus
Rossini Petite messe solennelle
  Stabat Mater
Rutter Psalmfest
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
  Mass No. 6 in E flat major
Schumann Dichterliebe
  Faust-Szenen / Ariel, Pater Estaticus
Spohr Die letzten Dinge
Tippett A child of our time
Verdi Requiem
Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch
 

Repertoire Opera

Beethoven Fidelio Florestan
    Jacquino
Britten Billy Budd Novice
  Owen Wingrave Lechmere
    Sir Philip Wingrave
Cavalli Giasone Egeo
    Sole
Delius A village Romeo and Juliet Sali
Eötvös The Tragedy of the Devil (UA) Adam
de Falla El retablo de Maese Pedro Maese Pedro
Francesconi Terra (UA) Il Marito
Glass Les Enfants terribles Gérard
Henze Phaedra Hippolyt
Händel Ariodante Odoardo
Janacek From the House of the Dead Kedril
    Skuratov
Kilpiö    Rantapalloja ja rintakarvoja (UA) tenor
Lehár Die lustige Witwe Camille de Rossillon
Lintinen Voi vietävä! tenor
Meyerbeer Ein Feldlager in Schlesien Konrad
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pastore
    Spirito
  Il ritorno d´Ulisse in patria Eumete
Mozart Così fan tutte Ferrando
  Die Entführung aus dem Serail Belmonte
    Pedrillo
  Die Zauberflöte Tamino
  Don Giovanni Don Ottavio
  La clemenza di Tito Tito
  La finta giardiniera Belfiore
Nicolai Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Fenton
Puccini Gianni Schicchi           Rinuccio
  Il tabarro Venditore di canzonette
  Tosca Spoletta
Rameau Castor & Pollux          Castor
Sallinen The King goes forth to France Burgher of Calais
Smetana The Bartered Bride Vasek
Strauss, J. Die Fledermaus Alfred
Strauss, R. Arabella Graf Elemer
  Der Rosenkavalier Ital. Singer
  Salome Narraboth
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress Tom Rakewell
Sylvain Zorina Percy
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Lensky
  The Queen of Spades Tshaplitzki
Verdi Falstaff Fenton
  La traviata Alfredo Germont
    Gastone
  Otello Cassio
Wagner Der fliegende Holländer Steuermann
  Tristan und Isolde Junger Seemann
Widmann Babylon (UA) Tammu

News

Florestan debut in Espoo and Tito premiere in Düsseldorf
With Jussi Myllys we are looking forward to his role debut as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio at Espoo City Theatre in Finland. In the staging by internationally acclaimed stage director and artistic director in Espoo, Erik Söderblom, Okka Kamu conducts the Tapiola Sinfonietta.
Premiere: August 24th 2021 - further performances on: August 26th and 28th, 2021

In the fall, Jussi Myllys returns to his parent house, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, to sing the title role of Tito in a new production by Martin Schulz of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito.
Premiere: October 9th 2021 - further performances on: October 24, 30; November 7, 18, 28 and December 29, 2021.

Press

 

Missa Solemnis / Hamburger Laeiszhalle / 10.05.22 / klassik-begeistert.de


"als klarer, absolut höhensicherer Tenor" 

Castle in the Water / Savonlinna Opera Festival / 09.07.17 / bachtrack.com


"brilliantly coloured for the Ursina Music" 

Die Zauberflöte / Edinburgh International Festival / 27.-30.08.15 / edinburghspotlight.com


"robustly heroic Tamino" 
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