Jaakko Ryhänen

Jaakko Ryhänen (born 2 December 1946) is a Finnish opera singer (bass) and voice pedagog.

Ryhänen initially trained as a primary school teacher. He later studied singing at the Sibelius Academy under Matti Lehtinen and Jolanda di Maria Petris. In total, Ryhänen performed nearly 600 times at the National Opera in a career lasting almost four decades, from 1973 to 2011.

From 1994 to 1996, he held the professorship of voice at the Sibelius Academy, and in 2003 at the Estonian Academy of Music. His biography Minun matkani ( 'My journey') was published in March 2022.