Tobias Ringborg

Conductor

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  Tobias Ringborg is one of the most prolific musical talents to emerge from Sweden in recent years, equally at home on the concert podium as a conductor and violinist, and in the opera house. His musical career started when, as a violinist, he won the prestigious Swedish Soloist Prize whilst at the Royal College of Music Stockholm. He went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music New York.

  As a violinist he has appeared with conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Okko Kamu, Sakari Oramo and Daniel Harding.

  As a conductor he has worked with numerous orchestras including the Odense Symphony, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony, Orchestra of Scottish Opera and English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican. He maintains a particularly strong connection with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.

  In Sweden he has conducted numerous productions for Malmö Opera and Stockholm Royal Opera including Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Ariadne auf Naxos, La Traviata, Otello, Don Carlos, Tosca, La Fanciulla del West, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Carmen, L’Elisir d’Amore, and Eugene Onegin.

  In the UK he has conducted Cosí fan tutte and Rigoletto for Scottish Opera and La Boheme at Opera North.

  Other opera engagements include La Traviata for Oper Leipzig, Turandot at Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Così fan tutte at Värmlandsoperan Karlstad, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Norwegian Opera Oslo, Faust and Idomeneo at the Danish National Opera.

  Tobias Ringborg is represented by Rayfield Allied in the UK and Ireland.
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  • Rigoletto
    Scottish Opera

    ...conducted by Tobias Ringborg, this is a more gripping and surprising Rigoletto than any I can remember - an impact it achieves without a big budget or plot makeover. The visual aesthetic - bright single-colour costumes against a black background, perfectly lit...finds an echo in Ringborg's taut, extremely stylish conducting: he is a find. Ringborg ensures that everyone, including the chorus, sounds well schooled.

    Andrew Clark, Financial Times

    Down in the pit, Tobias Ringborg and the Scottish Opera Orchestra pay scintillating attention to the score, holding the tension on a tight rein, and whipping up a real storm. The duets soar and the penultimate scene crackles...with lightning, both visually and in the pit.

    Sarah Urwin Jones, The Times

    First and foremost is the music. That appears to be the sure-footed maxim behind Scottish Opera's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, which enjoys a heightened sense of musicality under the brilliant Swedish conductor Tobias Ringborg. He energises the Scottish Opera Orchestra in a way few conductors have in recent times. Does it have something to do with the unorthodox distribution of the instruments in the pit? Probably yes, to the extent that the side-grouped woodwind emerge with engaging character, and the more openly visible strings at the start of Act 3 are luscious and sensational. Ringborg's achievement is one deep-rooted in his understanding of the score, which he amazingly conducts from memory, and from which he elicits a sense of punchy, original theatricality... I left with Verdi's glorious music ringing in my ears, proof of where the real magic of opera lies: in the notes of the score.

    Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman

    And honours go to the precise and stylish conducting of Tobias Ringborg, who has musicianship coming from every pore, while the orchestra played its socks off for him.

    Michael Tumelty, The Herald

    Tobias Ringborg drives the house band through Verdi's stormy score with pace and panache...

    Keith Aitken, Scottish Daily Express

  • Cosi fan tutte
    Scottish Opera

    There was nothing fashionable, or unfashionable, about this stylish, virtuoso production. Happily, there was also a virtuoso conductor, Tobias Ringborg. The overture exploded into a harum-scarum chase, without a glance over the shoulder, and this triumphant refusal to be cautious marked the whole opera, with the artists carried along on the flood. There were also perfectly poised slow tempi; "Soave sia il vento" flowed gently and serenely, the Tyrrhenian Sea glistening in the background.

    Raymond Monelle, Independent

    What really sets this production apart, though, is the explosive tonal world explored by the Scottish Opera Orchestra. Directing from the fortepiano, Swedish conductor Tobias Ringborg draws unfathomed richness and passion from Mozart's meaty score. Like everything else in this probing production, fresh ideas abound.

    Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman

    Tobias Ringborg’s brilliant conducting – full of arresting voices, tempo choices and dynamic inflexions that make you feel the ink could still be drying on Mozart’s score.

    Andrew Clark, Financial Times

    Directed from the fortepiano by Tobias Ringborg, the orchestral playing is bold and imaginatively coloured, with a wild overture, consistently excellent work from the bassoons, spiky strings, pleasingly dry kettledrums, a languid, velvety pianissimo in Prieto's "Un aura amorosa", and a lovely clarinet solo in Noorduyn's "Per pietà". Cupid's nose may be bloodied by the end but this is an alluring and perceptive production.

    Anna Picard, Independent of Sunday

• Tobias Ringborg Opera Repertoire

  BIZET

  • Carmen

  DONIZETTI

  • L'Elisir d'amore

  DU PUY

  • Ungdom og Galskab (Youth and Folly)

  FORONI

  • Cristina di Svezia

  GOUNOD

  • Faust
  • Roméo et Juliette

  LEONCAVALLO

  • Pagliacci

  MOZART

  • La Clemenza di Tito
  • Così fan tutte
  • Don Giovanni
  • Idomeneo, Re di Creta
  • Die Zauberflöte

  ROSSINI

  • Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  PUCCINI

  • La Bohème
  • La Fanciulla del West
  • Manon Lescaut
  • Il Tabarro
  • Tosca
  • Turandot

  SD SANDSTROM

  • Nätverket

  SMETANA

  • The Bartered Bride

  R STRAUSS

  • Ariadne auf Naxos

  TCHAIKOVSKY

  • Eugene Onegin

  UNANDER-SCHARIN

  • Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang

  VERDI

  • Don Carlo
  • Otello
  • Rigoletto
  • La Traviata
  • Il Trovatore

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