Camilla Nylund made her début in 1995 at the opera in Hanover, where she sang the rôle of Michaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, and was immediately offered a contract until 1999. In 1999, she became a member of the ensemble of the Semper Opera in Dresden. Camilla Nylund’s rôles include the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann, Marie in The Bartered Bride, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Agathe in Der Freischütz, Rosalinde in the operetta Die Fledermaus, Mimi in La Bohème and the Countess in Capriccio. In 1996 Camilla Nylund made her début at the Finnish National Opera in the rôle of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro—a rôle she has later also sung at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

Camilla Nylund regularly appears with many European orchestras, and she has participated in TV and radio recordings with the Finnish Radio Orchestra. She has been awarded several prizes including first prize in Finland’s most highly esteemed singing competition Lappeenranta and the Lilli Lehmannn Medal. On CD Camilla Nylund has recorded works by, among others, Schumann, Schubert, Sibelius, Kuula, Debussy, Britten, Mikko Heiniö, Reger, Denisov, Hoffmann and Mozart.