Principal Guest Conductor: Malmö Opera
Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden's most prolific conductors, with over 90 conducted operas and a vast concert repertoire. From 1993, he worked with the opera companies of Freiburg and Essen before returning to Freiburg as Music Director in 2006. Subsequently, he was appointed General Music Director at the State Theatre in Kassel in 2007 and remained in this position for a decade. There he conducted 27 new opera productions, including Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Lohengrin, Parsifal and Tannhäuser, Strauss’s Salome, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, Mozart’s Magic Flute and Così fan tutte, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Turandot as well as many modern works like Dialogues des Carmélites, Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Aribert Reimann's Lear and Hans Werner Henze's Orpheus.
He was engaged by the Staatsoper Dresden, the Volksoper in Vienna, the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Norwegian National Opera. At the Opera in Cologne, he conducted Der Rosenkavalier (including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's farewell performances).
Patrik Ringborg has conducted over 30 German orchestras, including the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, and the Gürzenich Orchestra, as well as concerts in many other countries.
In Sweden, he has worked with all the main orchestras.
The Gothenburg Opera appointed him Principal Guest Conductor after his debut in 1998 with Tannhäuser. He subsequently conducted all Wagner productions with the company until 2006 and returned with new productions of Salome, Notorious (world première), Ariadne and Sir Arne's Hoard.
Maestro Ringborg has been a guest with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996 and conducted the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in 2008 and the Award Ceremony for the Birgit Nilsson Prize (for Yo-Yo Ma) in 2022. Having conducted the Stockholm Royal Opera in Elektra (Savonlinna 2010), his opera debut in Stockholm followed in 2013 with a new production of Parsifal directed by Christof Loy, and in 2016 he returned to conduct the world première of Daniel Börtz's Medea.
He was been a guest at Malmö Opera since 1992 and is since 2022 its Principal Guest Conductor.
Patrik Ringborg was awarded the Opera Prize of the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet 2014 for the productions of Parsifal and Das Rheingold and ranked number one on the 2015 list of the magazine Opus, nominating the 20 most important people in Swedish classical music. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2022 he received the gold medal Litteris et Artibus from King Carl XVI Gustaf, and in 2023 he was awarded the Hugo Alfvén medal in gold.
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National Symphony Orchestra, Ireland
Dublin, November 2024
Authoritative and masterful, Ringborg swept us along on the emotional journey that is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 5 in E minor. The opening was dark and meditative, its melancholic mood contrasting with the more playful, almost mischievous second theme. Ringborg’s careful attention to the dynamics drew a rich, expressive performance from the NSO, allowing the brass and strings to shimmer and then roar with intensity. The second movement contains the glorious horn solo which was beautifully shaped before the cellos reiterated it with deep expressiveness. Ringborg whipped up the full forces of the orchestra to unleash the sonic boom of the ffff which Tchaikovsky notates in the score. Mercurial and graceful, the third movement was charmingly done while Ringborg and the NSO delivered a thrilling finale with incandescent tremolos, blazing brass and scurrying strings.
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Malmö SymfoniOrkester
Malmö, December 2022
Conductor Patrik Ringborg makes the Malmö Symphony Orchestra an enthusiastic instrument at Malmö Live, and casts a spell on the myth of the doom of nature with Alfvén's grand orchestral palette and cunning leitmotifs: chromatically winding like Richard Strauss, glittering dancer like Bizet, and blackened like Weill and Sibelius.
DN.se
Romeo et Juliette, Malmö Opera
Malmö, November 2022
Conductor Patrik Ringborg captures these key moments, where Gounod’s maddeningly adept counterpoint gives way to Wagnerian soaring harmonies, and leads the Malmö Opera Orchestra through delicate, chamber-musically meandering passages. “Peace? Never!” says the rumbling, sweeping chorus that rounds out Act Three as Roméo is sentenced to exile after stabbing Tybalt to death in a knife duel in the Capulet’s backyard. The melodrama becomes a big theater and hits directly in the solar plexus.
newsbeezer.com
Orchestra redeems Gounod's fine score really well - all under the direction of Patrik Ringborg, who has just received a major Swedish prize for his musical merits and has been associated with Malmö Opera as 1st guest conductor.
operaensvenner.dk
Patrik Ringborg - orchestral repertoire
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Patrik Ringborg - opera repertoire
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