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"All of the soloists were well suited to the score, to each other and the character of text. [...] Mykkanen held that heroic focus in his voice for the oddly gaited march interlude."

Herald Tribune 

"On Friday, the performers were in tune with their characters. Especially expressive were Price, who sang in tones stricken and resolute; and Mykkanen, whose assertive voice projected a sense of real danger. “I’m all things strange and bold,” Quint says in the libretto by Myfanwy Piper — and Mykkanen surely was."

The Columbus Dispatch 

"Mykkanen sang and spoke feelingly and superbly, with crystalline diction, a powerful lyric sound seemingly capable of infinite dynamic gradations."

Opera

"I had my favorites, including a few I was sure would win. One was Miles Mykkanen, a tenor who brought the house down with a melting performance of Nadir’s aria from Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” (“The Pearl Fishers”)."

The New York Times