Camilla Viktoria Rydh was born in
Linköping,
Östergötland County, Sweden. She studied at the
Högskolan för scen och musik in Göteborg (1997–98) and at the
Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 1998. Her opera debut was the role of Olympia in Offenbach's
The Tales of Hoffmann in Göteborg in 1997. At the
New York City Opera she appeared as Corinna in Rossini's
Il viaggio a Reims, in 2002 at
Covent Garden as Sophie in
Der Rosenkavalier of Richard Strauss, conducted by
Simone Young, at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival as Susanna with
Marc Minkowski, at the
Glyndebourne Festival in
Peter Grimes with Marc Wigglesworth, at
La Monnaie as Sophie with
Antonio Pappano, at the
Metropolitan Opera as Nanetta in Verdi's
Falstaff with
James Levine, and at the Drottningholm Festival as Pamina in Mozart's
The Magic Flute with Arnold Oestman. In concert, she sang Haydn's
The Creation with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic and
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Haydn's
The Seasons with
John Eliot Gardiner, Bach's
St Matthew Passion with the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra and
Daniel Harding, Mendelssohn's
Elijah with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra and
Philippe Herreweghe, Mozart's
Great Mass in C minor with the
San Francisco Symphony,
A German Requiem of Brahms with
Ivor Bolton, and Handel's
Messiah with the
Berliner Philharmoniker and
William Christie. Her first solo recording is
Rote Rosen,
Lieder by Richard Strauss, accompanied by Paul Rivinius, was released in 2009. == Recordings ==