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 and Don Giovanni at Opera North.

  Tobias Ringborg is represented in the UK and Ireland by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
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  • Madama Butterfly
    New Zealand Opera (April 2013)

    This music would be much less without the contribution of Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductor Tobias Ringborg showing why he claims Puccini to be his musical god. Strings soar and, in the starker moments, details compel.

    William Dart, The New Zealand Herald

    The whole show was steered expertly and unsentimentally by Tobias Ringborg.

    Douglas Elliot, The Opera Critic

  • Don Giovanni
    Opera North

    Most of the drama comes from the pit, thanks to Tobias Ringborg's big-boned musical approach.

    Hugh Canning, Sunday Times

    For a sense of drama, the performance depends on Tobias Ringborg's conducting; his flexible tempi bring welcome life to the stage.

    Andrew Clark, Financial Times

    Tobias Ringborg conducts an appropriately energised account of the score.

    Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph

    The Opera North orchestra plays thrillingly for Tobias Ringborg.

    Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

    Conductor Tobias Ringborg drew intense playing from the Opera North orchestra.

    Opera Now

    Tobias Ringborg conducted with a palpable sense of purpose and kept the orchestra on its toes.

    Martin Dreyer, Opera Magazine

  • Rigoletto
    Scottish Opera

    ...conducted by Tobias Ringborg, this is a more gripping and surprising Rigoletto than any I can remember. 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

    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

    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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