Camilla Nylund News
Finnish singer and opera singer
- soprano
- Finland
- opera singer, performing artist
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2024-04-25
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2024-03-28 15:57:00
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Semperoper Dresden, 27 March 2024
Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Baraks Frau), Komparserie; all images © Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig OlahEmperor – Eric Cutler Empress – Camilla Nylund Nurse – Evelyn Herlitzius Spirit-Messenger – Andreas Bauer Kanabas Barak – Oleksandr Pushniak Dyer’s Wife – Mina-Liisa Värelä Apparition of Youth – Martin Mitterrutzner Voice of the Falcon – Lea-ann Dunbar Voice from Above – Christa Mayer Guardian of the Threshold of the Temple – Nikola Hillebrand The One-Eyed – Rafael Fingerlos The One-Armed – Tilmann Rönnebeck The Hunchback – Tansel Akzeyebek Children’s Voices – Nikola Hillebrand, Sofia Savenko, Lea-ann Dunbar, Stephanie Atanasov, Dominika Škrabalová, Michal Doron Servants – Bryndis Gudjonsdottir, Sofia Savenko, Dominika ŠkrabalováDirector – David BöschSet designs – Patrick BannwartCostumes – Moana StembergerLighting – Fabio AntociVideo – Falko Herold, Patrick BannwartDramaturgy – Johann Casimir EuleChildren’s Chorus (director: Claudia Sebastian-Bertsch) of the Semperoper Dresden Chorus (director: André Kellinghaus) of the Semperoper DresdenSächsische Staatskapelle DresdenChristian Thielemann (conductor) Dresden […]
2023-06-06 22:00:00
[…] played every day. By and large the singers are also great. I have a quibble or two but not many.The company used Karl Böhm's cuts "as sanctioned by the composer" and I'm trying to get some more details on that. I can tell you that in Act 3, some of Barak and his Wife's wanderings around the Temple are trimmed and also the Empress's long speech before she finally refuses to take the Wife's shadow. Camilla Nylund (Empress) and David Butt Philip (Emperor)Die Frau ohne Schatten, Act 3Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of San Francisco OperaThis is....a problem child of an opera, with extraordinarily beautiful music wedded to a maddening libretto laden with symbolism and full of apparent pro-natalist views and links between full humanity and fertility. I have one friend calling the opera garbage and another defending it (it's all about transformation! Well, yeah, but also babies! Babies! BABIES!). I am […]
2022-08-06 20:41:00
Bayreuth Festival (4): Götterdämmerung, 5 August 2022
[…] Geissens – eine schrecklich glamouröse Familie. Gunther wears a sparkly top that asks ‘Who the fuck is Grane?’ Quite, though one might ask that about anyone here, really. Grane is later beaten to something not a million miles from horsemeat. Gunther leaves the carrier bag with pieces of his body by the pool for Brünnhilde in pink dressing gown eventually to pick up Grane’s head to sing to. The unfortunate image resembles Golden Girl Rose Nylund doing a turn as Salome on her way to collect midnight cheesecake, albeit with none of the fun or interest that might entail. But poor Brünnhilde (seriously). She too has been subjected to pretty horrific, all too casual abuse, seemingly to no end other than as something else to do (and not in a Clockwork Orangesort of way either). How much, if at all, violence towards women should be depicted on stage (or […]
2022-04-16 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to Korngold's 'Die tote Stadt'. '... Klaus Florian Vogt and Camilla Nylund rise superbly to the occasion with some searing interpretations worthy of the score.'
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