After being a troupe member in Hanover and at the Semperoper Dresden, Camilla Nylund is now one of the internationally most sought-after singers in her field and is a regular guest at all major opera houses - at the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala di Milano, the Paris Bastille, the Berlin and Hamburg State Operas, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, in Barcelona, Valencia, Zurich, Helsinki, Cologne, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Francisco.

The artist's repertoire includes all major parts of the classic-romantic repertoire. Especially with her interpretation of Richard Wagner - Elisabeth, Venus, Elsa, Sieglinde, Senta, Isolde, Brünnhilde- and Richard Strauss - Marschallin, Arabella, Gräfin (Capriccio), Chrysothemis, Kaiserin (Frau ohne Schatten), Ariadne, Salome and Daphne - Camilla Nylund is always setting new artistic standards. Roles such as Marie (Wozzeck), the title role of Jenufa, Eine Frau (Erwartung) and Katerina (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), which she sang for the first time in an highly acclaimed debut in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera in 2023, complete the repertoire of this versatile artist. She also continues to captivate audiences in leading roles from the Italian repertoire, most notably as Tosca, but also as Elisabetta in Don Carlos and Desdemona in Otello."

Coming from a lyric-dramatic background, Camilla Nylund has been extremely successful in her first full dramatic roles in past seasons. The Zurich Opera House played an important role in this and gave her the opportunity to make her debut after Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), also in all the Brünnhilde roles (Siegfried, Walküre, Götterdämmerung).

For many years, Camilla Nylund has been a defining presence at the Bayreuth Festival. She made her debut on the 'Green Hill' in 2011 as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, and has since performed there as Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), and Elsa (Lohengrin). Following the new production in August 2024, the 2024/25 season concluded in Bayreuth with Tristan und Isolde.

Following new productions of Die Walküre and Siegfried at La Scala in Milan last season, one of the highlights of Camilla Nylund’s 2025/26 season has been the continuation of the cycle at the same house with a new production of Götterdämmerung and two complete Ring cycles. She also returned to the Vienna State Opera, where she will appeared highly acclaimed in productions of Tannhäuser, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, and two Ring cycles. During the Vienna State Opera’s tour of Japan, she performed the role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Further engagements took her to the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, as well as to the Munich Opera Festival for Fidelio. Once again, her season concludes at the Bayreuth Festival – this time performing Brünnhilde in two Ring cycles.

In addition to her activiy on the international opera stage, she is also a regular guest at all major concert halls - Konzerthaus and Philharmonie Berlin, Herkulessaal Munich, "Isarphilharmonie" Munich, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Rome, at the BBC Proms, in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston and many more.

Camilla Nylund works with all the major maestri of our time in both the opera and concert repertoire, including Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Riccardo Muti, Marek Janowski, Kent Nagano, Karina Canellakis, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Omer Meir Wellber and Lahav Shani.

Chamber music and lied recitals have always been an important part of her artistic life. Together with Helmut Deutsch she dedicates her recital programs to the romantic German lieder as well as to the composers from her Scandinavian homeland.

In the 2025/26 season, Camilla Nylund returned as artist-in-residence to the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hannover — the very place where her career first began to gain momentum. She has been featured there in two concerts and a recital. In addition, she appeared as a soloist in various symphonic programs, including Wagner and Strauss at the Musikfest Bremen, songs and the symphonic poem Luonnotar by Jean Sibelius at the Usedom Music Festival, and Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder at the Tokyo Spring Festival. She also give recitals in Vienna, at the Tokyo Spring Festival, and in Zurich.

The versatile artist showed previously unknown facets during the Corona pandemic. Following an idea by André Heller, whom she met during a new production of Der Rosenkavalier at the Berlin State Opera, the project "Great American Songbook" was born. In this concert film recorded for ORF III, she interprets love songs in the spirit of US show business from the 1930s to the 1970s together with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by Marin Alsop in varied arrangements ranging from "combo" to large symphonic orchestra. A DVD and CD of the project has been released in December 2022 by Naxos. She sang songs from the "Great American Songbook" in front of an audience for the first time in March 2024 in Hamburg's sold-out Elbphilharmonie.   

In recognition of her artistic achievements, Camilla Nylund has received numerous awards. In November 2022, she was presented with the Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring - one of the world's most prestigious awards for female opera singers. In September 2022, she was awarded with the European Culture Prize alongside other high-profile laureats in the Zurich Tonhalle. To honour Camilla Nylund's long and successful artistic relationship with the Vienna State Opera, the artist was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersängerin (2019). The Semperoper Dresden has also appointed Camilla Nylund as Saxon Kammersängerin. She is also recipient of the Christel Goltz Prize of the Semperoper (2000), the Culture Prize of the Swedish Cultural Fund in Finland, the Pro Finlandia Medal, awarded by the Finnish President (2013), and the Finnish State Prize for Music (2019).

Camilla Nylund, born in Vaasa (Finland), first studied with Eva Illes, later in the opera and song class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 2003, she has been working with Irmgard Boas in Dresden. In December 1995 she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation.