Operetta gala

Born in Vaasa, Finland, Camilla Nylund is one of the most internationally sought-after lyric-dramatic sopranos. She studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg, was a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera from 1995 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2001 a member of the ensemble of the Saxon State Opera Dresden. Guest engagements have taken her, among others, to the Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the State Operas in Vienna, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin, the New National Theatre Tokyo, De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House London, the Opéra Bastille, to Bayreuth, and to 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 the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Marie in "Wozzeck", and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Jenůfa. In addition to her opera work, she is a regular guest in major concert halls. She has received multiple awards, including as Saxon and Austrian Kammersängerin, the European Cultural Prize, the Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring, and the Austrian Music Theatre Prize. At the Zurich Opera House, she made her role debuts as Isolde and Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre", "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung".

Piotr Beczała is among the most sought-after tenors of our time. Since his debut at the Met in 2006 as Duca ("Rigoletto"), he has also sung Lenski ("Eugene Onegin"), the Prince ("Rusalka"), Edgardo, Rodolfo, Vaudémont ("Iolanta"), Riccardo, Gounod’s Roméo, Faust, Maurizio ("Adriana Lecouvreur") and Werther there, as well as Des Grieux ("Manon"). His interpretation of Duca earned him the Echo Klassik award as Singer of the Year in 2014. At La Scala in Milan, he sang Duca, Rodolfo and Alfredo ("La traviata"). At the Salzburg Festival, where he debuted in 1997 as Tamino, he celebrated successes as Roméo, the Prince, Rodolfo and Faust, as well as in concert performances of Iolanta and Werther. He is also in demand worldwide as a concert and lieder singer. Piotr Beczała, who comes from Poland and has been a Swiss citizen since 2012, studied at the Music Academy in Katowice. He was a long-standing ensemble member at the Zurich Opera House. In addition to a number of DVDs, among others from the Zurich Opera House, his discography includes solo albums such as "Heart’s Delight: The Songs of Richard Tauber", "The French Collection", "Salut", "Verdi" and "Slavic Opera Arias". At the International Opera Awards 2018, he was named Singer of the Year. In 2016, he debuted as Lohengrin alongside Anna Netrebko at the Semperoper Dresden and sang the role again, among others, in Zurich in 2017, at the Bayreuth Festival in 2018, at the Vienna State Opera in 2020, as well as in Baden-Baden in 2026. In Zurich, he was most recently seen as Prince Sou-Chong in "The Land of Smiles", as Werther, as Chevalier des Grieux in "Manon", in a lieder recital, at an operetta gala and as Calàf in "Turandot". In this season, he could be heard, among others, as Andrea Chénier at the Met, as Radamès in "Aida" in Paris, as well as the Prince in "Rusalka" and Don José in "Carmen" at the Vienna State Opera. At the Bavarian State Opera, he sang Manrico in "Il trovatore" as well as Faust this season.