Patrik Ringborg

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Patrik Ringborg at the HNA Summer Open Air 2016

Patrik Ringborg (born November 1, 1965 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish conductor , member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .

Career

After studying at the Royal University of Music in Stockholm and with court conductor Kurt Bendix, he was employed there from 1989 as a répétiteur and assistant to the chief conductor at the Royal Opera . As early as 1988 he worked at the Saxon State Opera Dresden as assistant to the chief conductor and in 1992 he held the same position at the Canadian Opera Toronto . In 1993 he made his debut as a conductor at the Royal Stockholm Opera.

In 1993 Patrik Ringborg was hired as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Freiburg , from 1995 in the position of 1st Kapellmeister. This was followed by a contract as 1st Kapellmeister at the Aalto-Theater Essen from 1999 to 2003 . After his first season in Essen, Ringborg was voted "Best Conductor" together with Stefan Soltesz and John Fiore ( New Rhineland - August 2000). Patrik Ringborg was also artistic director of the German Kurt Weill Festival 2000 . In the 2006/07 season Patrik Ringborg was chief conductor at the Freiburg Theater . From August 2007 to July 2017 Patrik Ringborg was general music director at the Staatstheater Kassel . He was also President of the Orchestra Academy of the Kassel State Orchestra , founder of the Opera Studio at the State Theater and artistic director of the Gustav Mahler Festival.

Guest Conductor

Ringborg is one of the most successful Swedish conductors with a diverse concert career and a broad opera repertoire of eighty musical theater works that goes far beyond his main repertoire of Wagner and Strauss. His guest conductors led him a. a. to the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt , the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne , the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Gürzenich Orchestra , the Munich Radio Orchestra , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Staatskapelle Weimar , the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz , the Essen, Dortmund and Stuttgart Philharmonics , the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the state orchestras in Bremen and Nuremberg . In Sweden he made guest appearances with all major orchestras and was also active as a conductor in Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Norway , Spain , Hungary and Austria .

At the 2008 Nobel Prize ceremony, he conducted the Stockholm Royal Philharmonic, an orchestra with which he has been a guest several times since 1996. In 2009 he made his debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden's National Orchestra, and in 2011 he made his debut with the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra .

Since his debut with Tannhäuser in 1998, Patrik Ringborg has been a guest at the Gothenburg Opera every year , where he conducted all Wagner productions for eight years . In autumn 2000 he was appointed first guest conductor and in 2003 led the Gothenburg premiere of Tristan und Isolde . After this production, the Opera Prize of the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet was awarded to the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra, and Ringborg was nominated for the annual prize of the Swedish magazine Opera . In 2011 the conductor was the musical director of a premiere of Salome directed by Peter Konwitschny , and in 2015 the world premiere of Hans Gefors ' Notorious followed .

Since his debut with Werther in 2004, Patrik Ringborg has been a permanent guest conductor at the German National Theater Weimar for five years and has also directed the Staatskapelle Weimar at symphony concerts and during a concert tour to Italy. As an opera conductor he also made guest appearances a. a. with La Bohème at the Vienna Volksoper , with Nabucco at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden and with La forza del destino at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , where he recently conducted the revival of Manon Lescaut . In May 2009, Patrik Ringborg made his debut at the Norwegian National Opera with a premiere of Elektra and in 2014 he will direct a new production in this house. In spring 2010 he made his debut at the Cologne Opera with Der Rosenkavalier (including the farewell performances by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ). At the 2010 Opera Festival in Savonlinna he conducted Elektra again , this time in a guest performance with the Royal Stockholm Opera. The Stockholm opera debut followed in autumn 2013 with a new production of Parsifal directed by Christof Loy and in 2016 he directed the world premiere of Daniel Börtz 's Medea there .

In 2014 he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Opera Prize.

Selected opera productions

literature

  • Wagner spectrum . Faithfulness to the workmanship at Wagner. The conductor Patrik Ringborg in conversation with Egon Voss . Koenigshausen + Neumann Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-8260-3285-3
  • National Cyclopedin . Article "Patrik Ringborg", supplement volume 3. NE Förlag 1999. ISBN 91-7133-740-7
  • A Gallery Carol by Patrik Ringborg. SK Förlag 1985. ISMN M-070-01675-9
  • Europa Publications: International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 , 19th edition, Routledge, 2003. 980 p., ISBN 978-1-857-43174-2
  • Ruth Renée Reif: The Stuttgart Philharmonic, a historical portrait , Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag , 1999. ISBN 3-87407-319-X
  • Swedish choral music, a selective catalog , Stockholm: Svensk Musik, 1988, 60 p. ISBN 978-9185470495
  • Medea , opera by Daniel Börtz in German translation by Patrik Ringborg, Stockholm: Gehrmans musikförlag, 1988979-0-070-13038-7

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography in: German Music Information Center
  2. ↑ Werner Fritsch: The outgoing general music director over ten intensive years. Patrik Ringborg: “Kassel's audience is unique”. In: HNA . June 24, 2017 .;
personal data
SURNAME Ringborg, Patrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm