Song recital
Camilla Nylund

19. May 2022

Jean Sibelius
Kaiutar
Men min fågel märks dock icke
Norden
Soluppgång
Jubal
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
Svarta rosor

Gustav Mahler
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Das irdische Leben
Urlicht
Verlorne Müh
Scheiden und meiden

Intermission

Alban Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder

Richard Strauss
Heimliche Aufforderung
Ruhe meine Seele
Malven
Georgine
Morgen
Cäcilie


Cast


Sopran Camilla Nylund


Klavier Joonas Ahonen

Camilla Nylund

Born in Vaasa, Finland, Camilla Nylund is one of the most sought-after lyric-dramatic sopranos on the international stage. She studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg, was a member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Hannover from 1995 to 1999 and a member of the ensemble of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden from 1999 to 2001. Guest engagements have taken her, among other places, to Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin State Operas, the New National Theatre Tokyo, De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House London, the Opéra Bastille, Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festival. Her most important roles include Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser", Elsa in "Lohengrin", Eva in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Senta in "Der fliegende Holländer", as well as the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", Arabella, Salome, the Countess in "Capriccio", Ariadne and Chrysothemis in "Elektra". At the Vienna State Opera, she sang Marietta/Marie in "Die tote Stadt", at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Marie in "Wozzeck", and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Jenůfa. Alongside her operatic work, she is a regular guest at the world’s major concert halls. She has received numerous awards, including the titles of Sächsische and Österreichische Kammersängerin, the European Culture Prize, the Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring and the Austrian Music Theatre Award. At Zurich Opera House, she gave a song recital in December 2025 and returns in the 2026/27 season as Rosalinde in "Die Fledermaus" and as Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre".

Die Fledermaus29 Sept / 8 / 17 / 23 / 25 Oct 2026 Die Walküre24 / 31 Jan / 3 / 6 Feb 2027

Joonas Ahonen

Joonas Ahonen, finnischer Pianist, ist Mitglied des Klangforum Wien und Mitbegründer des Rödberg Hammerklaviertrios. Sein Repertoire reicht von der Wiener Klassik bis zur zeitgenössischen Musik. Als Solist trat er mit dem Philharmonischen Orchester Helsinki, dem Symphonieorchester des Finnischen Rundfunks, dem BBC Symphony Orchestra sowie den Ensembles Avanti! und Ictus auf. Jüngst spielte er die Weltpremiere von Rebecca Saunders’ To An Utterance in der Berliner Philharmonie, Unsuk Chins Klavierkonzert mit der Basel Sinfonietta, sein Debüt mit dem Stavanger Symphonieorchester unter Pablo Heras-Casado und Philipp Maintzs Klavierkonzert mit dem ORF RSO unter Marin Alsop. Mit der Violinistin Patricia Kopatchinskaja trat er am Gstaad Festival, in Lockenhaus, im Wiener Konzerthaus, dem Konzerthaus Kopenhagen, an der Scala in Mailand und am Edinburgh International Festival auf. Seine Diskografie umfasst u.a. Ligetis Klavierkonzert unter Baldur Brönnimann und Charles Ives’ Klaviersonaten.

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Abstract

Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund continues to set new artistic standards, especially with her interpretations of Richard Wagner's and Richard Strauss's roles - a fact that has often been demonstrated in Zurich. Here she will make her debut as Wagner's Isolde in June, and her eagerly awaited debut as Brünnhilde in the new Zurich Ring will follow soon. Before that, however, Camilla Nylund can be heard in a song recital: Richard Strauss is of course a must (including Heimliche Aufforderung, Ruhe meine Seele, Morgen and Cäcilie), as is Gustav Mahler (including Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Das irdische Leben and Urlicht). In addition, works by Nylund's Finnish compatriot Jean Silbelius will be heard, as well as the Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) by the young Alban Berg, which, as a small cycle, tell the story of a love, perhaps the composer's love for his later wife Helene. Camilla Nylund will be accompanied on the piano by Joonas Ahonen.

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