Recital Camilla Nylund

Camilla Nylund, born in Vaasa, Finland, is one of the most sought-after lyric-dramatic sopranos on the international stage. She studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, was a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera from 1995 to 1999, and belonged to the ensemble of the Saxon State Opera in Dresden from 1999 to 2001. In 2008 she was appointed Saxon Kammersängerin, and in 2019 Austrian Kammersängerin. She received the European Culture Prize in 2022 as well as the prestigious Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring; in 2023 she was awarded the Austrian Music Theater Prize. Guest engagements have taken her, among other places, to La Scala in Milan, the Met, the state operas in Vienna, Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin, to the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Nederlandse Opera, the Royal Opera House London, the Opéra Bastille, Bayreuth, and the Salzburg Festival. Her most important roles include Wagner’s Elisabeth ("Tannhäuser"), Elsa ("Lohengrin"), Eva ("Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg") and Senta ("Der fliegende Holländer"), as well as Strauss’s Marschallin ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Arabella, Salome, the Countess ("Capriccio"), Ariadne, and Chrysothemis ("Elektra"). At the Vienna State Opera she sang Marietta/Marie ("Die tote Stadt"), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Marie ("Wozzeck"), and at the Berlin State Opera Jenůfa. As a concert singer and in a Lied duo with Helmut Deutsch, she has appeared at the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the BBC Proms, and the KKL Lucerne. At the Zurich Opera House she made role debuts as Isolde and Brünnhilde ("Walküre", "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung"), and had previously appeared there as Senta in "Der fliegende Holländer".

Helmut Deutsch is one of the most sought-after and successful Lied pianists of our time. Born in Vienna, he studied piano and composition at the city’s University of Music and Performing Arts, as well as musicology at the University of Vienna. He specialized in song accompaniment and chamber music and began his international concert career as the piano partner of Irmgard Seefried. Since then, he has appeared in the world’s leading concert halls and at major festivals with many distinguished singers, including Juliane Banse, Grace Bumbry, Ileana Cotrubas, Diana Damrau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Angelika Kirchschlager, Genia Kühmeier, Christiane Oelze, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw, Ruth Ziesak, Olaf Bär, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Wolfgang Holzmayr, Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas Moser, Christoph Prégardien, Josef Protschka, Thomas Quasthoff, Andreas Schmidt, Bo Skovhus, Peter Schreier, Christoph Strehl, Michael Volle, and Bernd Weikl, and has released several highly acclaimed recordings on various labels. He enjoyed a twelve-year close artistic partnership with the baritone Hermann Prey. Helmut Deutsch is a winner of the Vienna Composition Prize, teaches at the University of Music in Munich, and gives masterclasses and interpretation courses throughout Europe and Japan.