Camilla Tilling

Undoubtedly one of Sweden’s most accomplished talents, Camilla Tilling’s beguiling tone and unfailing musicality have made her a firm favourite with conductors, audiences and critics alike. Tilling is one of the world’s most sought-after concert performers with recent appearances including under Gustavo Dudamel with both Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, under Esa-Pekka Salonen with London Philharmonia Orchestra in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder”, with Gianandrea Noseda and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 and with Omer Meir Welber and Orchestre national de France in Henri Dutilleux’s “Correspondances”. She toured extensively in Peter Sellars’ stagings of J. S. Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” and “St John Passion” with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle, and had a special connection to the late Bernard Haitink under whose baton she sang her first “Missa Solemnis” by Ludwig van Beethoven at Teatro alla Scala, and in whose historic final concerts with Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 2019, she was his chosen Richard Strauss soprano soloist.

Over recent seasons, Tilling has continued to expand an already impressively varied repertoire with such works as Osvaldo Golijov’s “Three Songs” with David Danzmayr and the Oregon Symphony, Irgens-Jensen’s song cycle “Japanischer Frühling” with Christian Blex and Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Leoš Janáček’s “Glagolitic Mass” under the baton of Rafael Payare with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys “Paulus” with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España under Masaaki Suzuki.

This season, she reunites with Sir Simon Rattle for performances of “St Matthew Passion” with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, reprises Solveig in Bill Barclay’s staging of “Peer Gynt” with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, joins Eivind Aadland and Tasmania Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder” and Donald Runnicles and Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Claude Debussy’s “La Damoiselle élue”.

Early operatic roles such as Sophie in “Der Rosenkavalier”, Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte”, Ilia  in “Idomeneo”, Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro” and Zerlina in “Don Giovanni” gave Tilling debuts at Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala and The Metropolitan Opera.

Tilling embarked on a North American recital collaboration last season with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax presenting her acclaimed Swedish Nightingale programme “Jenny Lind: Love and Lieder” and this season she joins Håvard Gimse at Troldhaugen as part of the Bergen International Festival with a programme of Edvard Grieg songs. Her impressive discography includes orchestral works by Joseph Haydn with Bernard Haitink, Georg Friedrich Händel and Henry Purcell with Emmanuelle Haïm, Edvard Grieg with Paavo Järvi, Johannes Brahms with Marek Janowski, among others.