MilesMykkanen

Press

• Britten - Albert Herring

  Chicago Opera Theater

  Jan 2023

  • There were winning performances by Miles Mykkanen in the title role [...] With his splendid lyric tenor and endearingly awkward manner as the town's reluctant May King, Mykkanen had the full measure of Albert both vocally and dramatically

    • Opera Magazine
    • 01 April 2023

  • As Albert, tenor Miles Mykkanen displayed a lovely lyric voice with an appealing honeyed sweetness in the timbre, which he employed with intelligence and humor

    • Opera News

• Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

  Metropolitan Opera, New York

  Sep 2021

  • And this was a cast of sonorous, articulate singing talkers […] The mezzo-soprano Tichina Vaughn, as a piquant inn hostess, and the tenor Miles Mykkanen, as the plangent Holy Fool who haunts Boris, are both excellent.

    • New York Times
    • 29 September 2021

  • The character of the Holy Fool, hauntingly sung and acted here by Miles Mykkanen, clearly represents Boris’ conscience, and Wadsworth fascinatingly has him confronting the Tsar-to-be on an empty stage before a note of music is played. Boris recoils from the Fool immediately and takes refuge in the monastery. The Fool appears often – twirling madly when not singing – a constant reminder of Boris’ guilt

    • Bachtrack
    • 02 October 2021

  • Spinning like a top and scattering balletic anguish […] the fine American tenor Miles Mykkanen gave it his all and sang very beautifully

    • Opera News
    • 30 September 2021