Recital 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".

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.