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.

An ensemble member of the the Frankfurt Opera from 2006 to 2009, Jussi Myllys performed in many productions including The Magic Flute, Billy Budd, Fidelio, La Finta Giardiniera, Don Giovanni, among others. His guest engagements include Don Giovanni in Berlin, The Magic Flute in Dresden, Der Fliegende Holländer in Savonlinna Opera Festival (2008), Salome in Genève and Falstaff in the Finnish National Opera 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, among others. He also performed Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under the baton of Hervé Niquet in Montpellier (2007), St. John’s Passion together with Markus Stenz and the Gürzenich-Orchestra in Cologne, and Wolfgang Rihm’s Deus Passus with the Bachakademie Stuttgart and Helmuth Rilling conducting (2008).

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Jussi Myllys joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. His roles there include Narraboth, Tamino, Belmonte, Ferrando and Hippolyt in Henze´s Phaedra.
In March 2010 he made his house debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, in a new opera by Peter Eötvös, Tragedy of the Devil and he has been heard there again also as Jaquino during the season 2010/11.