Lieder and songs by Antonín Dvořák, Lili Boulanger, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss
Many music lovers still remember the extraordinary Salome performed by Camilla Nylund under the direction of Zubin Mehta in 2010. Years later she performed the first act of Die Walküre and the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde in the Auditori, reaffirming her status as one of the most respected Wagnerian and Straussian sopranos of her generation. The Finnish artist is equally devoted to Lied, her voice now at a stage of interpretative maturity that, according to recent critics, “sounds at its very best.” No recital of hers would be complete without Strauss, the central composer of her repertoire and the one through whom she reaches her highest levels of sensitivity and expression. Sibelius, reflecting the culture of her homeland, together with a selection of Dvořák cycles, completes the portrait of a great voice, supported by the musical intelligence and evocative power at the piano of Helmut Deutsch.
