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Britten - Albert Herring
Chicago Opera TheaterJan 2023There 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 YorkSep 2021And 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