Camilla Nylund

Camilla Nylund (born 11 June 1968) is a Finnish operatic soprano. She appears internationally in lyric-dramatic roles such as Beethoven's Leonore, Verdi's Elisabetta, and Wagner's Elisabeth and Sieglinde. She is especially known for portraying leading female characters in operas by Richard Strauss, (e.g. Marschallin, Arabella, Ariadne and Countess Madeleine After finishing her schooling in Austria, she made her professional debut at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki in 1996 as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. She was a member of the Staatsoper Hannover ensemble from 1995-1999, singing roles such as Countess (Le nozze di figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Marie (Die verkaufte Braut), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Eva (Meistersinger), Freia (Rheingold), Gutrune (Götterdämmerung), Countess (Capriccio), Lisa (Das Land des Lächelns) and Mimì (La bohème). and René Pape.

In the beginning of 2020, she starred in another production of Der Rosenkavalier by Andre Heller at the Berlin State Opera alongside Nadine Sierra and Günther Groissböck. During the Covid-19 pandemic Nylund continued to perform as much as possible, headlining the Lech Classic Festival in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg alongside Piotr Beczala and participating in the recording of a concert with the Wiener Symphoniker in celebration of Franz Lehar's 150th birthday.

She rejoined Heller for "André Hellers Hauskonzerte", a project aired by ORF III in November 2020 that first saw Nylund's abilities not only as a classical soprano, but within multiple other genres such as chanson, jazz and musical theatre.

2021 saw her debuts in the title roles of Janacek's Jenůfa at the Berlin State Opera as well as Puccini's Tosca in her long-awaited return to the Finnish National Opera. In June of the same year, Nylund was Artist in Residence at the newly founded Brixen Classics Festival and once again worked with André Heller on another project for ORF III, interpreting parts of The Great American Songbook with the RSO Wien and Marin Alsop.

She debuted the role of "a woman" in Schönberg's Erwartung at the Frankfurt Opera House in January 2022 and is due to make her first appearances as Isolde and Brünnhilde (Ring Cycle) at the Zürich Opera House until the end of the year.

Recordings (selection)

2004: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio (with Jonas Kaufmann and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, DVD) 2011: Camilla Nylund: Transfiguration - Wagner & Strauss, Arias & Scenes (with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu) 2013: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (DVD), (live from Finnish National Opera, with Klaus Florian Vogt) 2014: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigenia in Aulis (conductor: Christoph Spering) 2014: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser (live from the Bayreuth Festival) 2015: Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Frankfurt Opera, conductor: Sebastian Weigle) 2015: Richard Strauss Gala, Semperoper (with Christine Goerke, Anja Harteros, Christian Thielemann)

2017: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, live from De Nederlandse Opera, Nylund as Marschallin, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller as Sophie, Paula Murrihy as Octavian, conducted by Marc Albrecht. 2017: Franz Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg (with Daniel Behle) 2020: Richard Wagner: "Wagner at Wahnfried"; Siegfried Idyll, Wesendonck-Lieder (Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann) 2022: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (CD), (live from Finnish National Opera, with Klaus Florian Vogt)

Awards 1995: Lilli Lehmann Medal of the Mozarteum