“A discovery… Mykkanen is a singer of vast power and lyricism, whose dramatic abilities match his fine vocal apparatus.”
Opera Today
About Miles
The career of exuberant young Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykkanen (MIH-kuh-nun) was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Mykkanen has quickly become the go-to tenor for roles requiring a deft balance of power, lyricism, and dramatic acuity, including a new Barrie Kosky production of Die Fledermaus and Philip Venables’ world premiere We Are The Lucky Ones, both at Dutch National Opera, a new Ted Huffman production of L’incoronazione di Poppea at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the North American premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at San Francisco Opera.
Just Wrapped
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Cleveland Orchestra
May 17, 22, 25, 2025
Cleveland • Ohio
Just Announced
Miles will star in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season opener, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Chabon and created by composer Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer.
Set in 1940s New York City, the opera follows two Jewish cousins – a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer Brooklynite – who team up to create The Escapist, a comic book superhero who takes America by storm as he battles the Nazis and frees the oppressed.
Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, the score explores three distinct sound worlds: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium.