Camilla Nylund

The soprano Camilla Nylund hails from Vaasa, Finland. She initially studied musicology in Turku and at the same time took voice lessons with Eva Illes at the conservatory there before completing her vocal training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The winner of several competitions, she received her first engagement at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, she was a member of the ensemble of the Dresden Semperoper, where she was honored with the Christel Goltz Prize in 2000. Since then, Camilla Nylund has been freelancing and appearing on renowned international stages. In 2004, she made her debut as Beethoven’s Leonore under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Zurich Opera, followed by her debut at the Vienna Staatsoper in 2005 with Strauss’s Salome. Camilla Nylund first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 2006 in Strauss’s version of Mozart’s Idomeneo; 2011 saw her first appearance in Bayreuth, where she took on the role of Elisabeth in a new production of Tannhäuser. She performed Eva in Die Meistersinger at the Wagner Festival in 2019 and Elsa in Lohengrin in 2022. She made her first appearance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2019 singing the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Camilla Nylund is currently expanding her repertoire into the highly dramatic Wagnerian field: in June 2022, she sang her first Isolde at Zurich Opera, and she will also make her role debut as Brünnhilde in the Ring of the Nibelung there in 2022-23. As a concert singer, Nylund regularly works with major conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Jurowski, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Christian Thielemann. She was named a Saxon Kammersängerin in 2008 and an Austrian Kammersängerin in 2019. Her native country has awarded her the Pro-Finlandia Medal (2013) and the Finnish State Prize for Music (2019).

August 2022