Finnish-born tenor Jussi Myllys started his international career in 2005, singing Don Ottavio in Turku and at the Komische Oper Berlin as well as several concerts in Prag und Riga with Peter Schreier conducting and in Japan together with the Rias Kammerchor. In Turku, he also performed Scenes of Faust by Schumann, and he’s been participating in a recording of Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King goes forth to France) with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.


After studying at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he performed both as a singer and dancer in several productions, such as Cosí fan tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Fledermaus and several contemporary works.

In 2006 he joined the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, performing Vašek/The Bartered Bride, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Pedrillo/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Novice/Billy Budd,  Jaquino/Fidelio, Belfiore/La finta Giardiniera, and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, among others. His guest engagements include La Traviata in Berlin, Zauberflöte in Dresden, Der Fliegende Holländer in Savonlinna (2008), Salome in Genève and Falstaff in Helsinki (2009).

Being quite active as a concert singer, Jussi Myllys has sung  such works as Bach’s Passion of St.Matthew and Magnificat, Händel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and also the Requiem by Andrew Lloyd-Webber. He also performed Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under the baton of Hervé Niquet in Montpellier (2007), St. John’s Passion together with Markusd Stenz and the Gürzenich-Orchestra in Cologne, and Wolfgang Rihm’s Deus Passus with the Bachakademie Stuttgart and Helmut Rilling conducting (2008).