Patrik Ringborg, conductor

Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden's most prolific conductors with over 90 conducted operas and a vast concert repertory. 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.
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 Orchesta, 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 the 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 The Rhine Gold 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.
Operas (including Operettas and Musicals)
d'Albert: Lowland
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
van Beethoven: Fidelio
Bizet: Carmen (Dialogue and Recitative Versions)
Boito: Mefistofele
Börtz: Medea
Britten: Peter Grimes
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Donizetti: Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Donizetti: Viva la Mamma (Frazzi Version)
Fagerlund: Autumn Sonata
Gefors: Notorious
Gefors: The Park
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Glass: Akhnaten
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna Version)
Gounod: Faust
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Henze: Orpheus (Vienna Version - German Première)
Holten: Schlagt sie tot!
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Janáček: Jenůfa (Brno Version)
Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Krenek: The Dictator
Künneke: Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet: Werther
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Prague/Vienna Versions)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Nystroem: The Treasure
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann
Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
Orff: Carmina Burana
Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood (German Première)
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges
Puccini: La Bohème
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Puccini: Tosca
Puccini: Turandot (Alfano/Berio Versions)
Reimann: Lear
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Spohr: Jessonda
J. Strauss: The Bat
J. Strauss: A Night In Venice (Korngold Version)
R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
R. Strauss: Elektra (also reduced version)
R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
R. Strauss: Salome (also reduced version)
R. Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau
von Suppé: Boccaccio
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Verdi: A Masked Ball
Verdi: Don Carlo (Milano Version)
Verdi: Falstaff
Verdi: La forza del destino
Verdi: Luisa Miller
Verdi: Nabucco
Verdi: Rigoletto
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Verdi: La Traviata
Verdi: Il Trovatore
von Weber: Der Freischütz
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Lohengrin
Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Wagner: Parsifal
Wagner: The Rhine Gold
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Versions 1845 and 1860)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
Wagner: Die Walküre
Weill: Mahagonny-Songspiel
Weill: One Touch of Venus
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Weill: The Silverlake
Weill: The Tsar Has His Photo Taken
Wolf-Ferrari: School for Fathers
Selection of Concert Repertory
Bartók, Béla: Concerto for Orchestra Sz. 116 BB 123
Bartók, Bela: Divertimento for Strings Sz. 113
Bartók, Béla: Viola Concerto Op. post
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Leonore Ouverture No. 3 Op. 72a
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Concerto No. 4 G major Op. 58
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Prometheus Ouverture Op. 43
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 1 C major Op. 21
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 3 E flat major Op. 55 "Eroica"
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 5 C minor Op. 66 "Destiny"
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 6 F major Op. 68 "The Pastoral"
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 7 A major Op. 92
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No. 8 F major Op. 93
Berg, Alban: Violin Concerto – "To the Memory of an Angel"
Berlioz, Hector: Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14
Britten, Benjamin: War Requiem Op. 66
Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto G minor No. 1 Op. 26
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 4 E flat major (2nd Version)
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 4 E flat major (3rd Version)
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 7 E major
Chopin, Frédéric: Piano Concerto No. 1 E minor, Op. 11
Debussy, Claude: La Mer
Dvořák, Antonín: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra B minor Op. 104
Franck, César: Symphony D minor
Grieg, Edvard: Holberg Suite Op. 40
Grieg, Edvard: Peer Gynt Op. 23
Grieg, Edvard: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
Grieg, Edvard: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Op. 55
Grieg, Edvard: Piano Concerto A minor Op. 16
Haydn, Joseph: The Creation Hob XXI:2
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 6 D major "Le Matin" Hob I:6
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 45 F sharp minor "Farewell" Hob I:45
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 59 A major "Fire" Hob I:59
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 73 D major "La Chasse" Hob I:73
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 87 A major Hob I:87
Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 104 A major "London" Hob I:104
Haydn, Joseph: Trumpet Concerto Hob VIIe:1
Khachaturian, Aram: Maskerade Suite
Larsson, Lars-Erik: Symphony No. 3 Op. 34
Liszt, Franz: Piano Concerto No. 2 A major
Mahler, Gustav: Kindertoten-Lieder
Mahler, Gustav: Das klagende Lied (Original Version)
Mahler, Gustav: Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler, Gustav: Rückert-Lieder
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 1 "Titan"
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 3 D minor
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 4 G major
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 5 C sharp minor
Mahler, Gustav: From the "Wunderhorn" Songs
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Hebriden Ouverture Op. 26
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Ouvertüre für Harmoniemusik Op. 24
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Symphony No. 5 D major Op. 107 "Reformation"
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Violin Concerto E minor Op. 64
Mozart, W. A.: Clarinet Concerto A major KV 622
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 25 g minor KV 183
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 29 A major KV 201
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 31 D major "Paris" KV 297
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 35 D major "Haffner" KV 385
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 38 D major "Prague" KV 504
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 39 E flat major KV 543
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 40 G minor KV 550
Mozart, W. A.: Symphony No. 41 C-Dur "Jupiter" KV 551
Mozart, W. A.: Triple Concerto C major for Flute, Harp and Orchestra KV 299
Mozart, W. A.: Violin Concerto A major KV 219
Pärt, Arvo: cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
Pärt, Arvo: Fratres (version 1983)
Prokofiev, Sergej: Piano Concerto No. 3 C major Op. 26
Prokofiev, Sergej: From Romeo and Julia Op. 101
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Piano Concerto No. 2 c minor Op. 18
Ravel, Maurice: La Valse
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Violoncello Concerto No. 1 A minor Op. 33
Schoenberg, Arnold: Chamber Symphony No. 1 Op. 9
Schoenberg, Arnold: Gurre-Lieder
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No. 7 B minor "Unfinished" D 759
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No. 8/9 C major "The Great" D 944
Schumann, Robert: "Manfred" Ouverture Op. 115
Schumann, Robert: Symfony No. 4 d minor Op. 120
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 6
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 8
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 9
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 12
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Symphony No. 15
Sibelius, Jean: Finlandia Op. 26
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No. 7 C major Op. 105
Skriabin, Alexander: Symphony No. 2 C minor Op. 29
Smetana, Bedrich: Vltava (The Moldau) from Ma Vlast
Strauss, Richard: Don Juan Op. 20
Strauss, Richard: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28
Stravinsky, Igor: Pulcinella
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Nutcracker Op. 71
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Piano Concerto No. 1 B flat minor Op. 23
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symphony No. 4 E minor Op. 64
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symfony No. 6 B minor Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33
Wagner, Richard: Siegfried-Idyll
Wagner, Richard: Wesendonck Songs
von Zemlinsky, Alexander: The Little Mermaid Op. 43
Full list: http://www.ringb.org/sv/konzert/
Representation:
DK, NO, SE, FI, IS