During the 2025-26 season, Miles Mykkanen makes his HGO debut as Nikolaus Sprink in Silent Night. Elsewhere this season, Mykkanen performs as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Groom in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence with the Metropolitan Opera. He also makes house and role debuts as Leukippos in Strauss’s Daphne at Seattle Opera and Tamino in The Magic Flute at LA Opera. In concert, he performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cleveland Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, and the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor. He marks his first appearance at the Maastricht Festival in the Netherlands as soloist in Carmina Burana and will be the featured artist in Juilliard’s annual Alice Tully Vocal Recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Past engagements include a new Barrie Kosky production of Die Fledermaus and Philip Venables’s world premiere We Are The Lucky Ones, both at Dutch National Opera, a new Ted Huffman production of The Coronation of Poppea at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the North American premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at San Francisco Opera. Additional appearances include Die tote Stadt (Bayerische Staatsoper); Falstaff (Staatsoper Hamburg); Candide (Opéra de Lausanne, Ravinia, Tanglewood); Silent Night (Minnesota Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Philadelphia); and Boris Godunov, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Wozzeck, all at the Metropolitan Opera. He is the founding Artistic Director of the Emberlight Festival.