Patrik Ringborg (born 1 November 1965) is a Swedish

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, member of the

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Career

Born in

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, as a student Ringborg attended the

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in Stockholm. After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and with Kurt Bendix, Ringborg was a

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at the

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in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the

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and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the

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in Dresden (1988) and at the

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(1992). From 1993 to 1999, Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the

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Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003, he conducted at the

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in Essen, where in 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor. After Ringborg's first year in Essen, critics named him the "season's best conductor" together with

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and Essen's music director

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.''Neues Rheinland'', August 2000 Ringborg made his debut at the

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in 1998 with ''

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'', and later was named its Principal Guest Conductor. There he also conducted the much acclaimed world premiere of Notorious by Hans Gefors in 2015. He also was the Artistic Director of the German

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Festival 2000. Until July 2007, Ringborg was chief conductor with the Freiburg Opera. With the 2007/2008 season, Ringborg became music director at the

Staatstheater Kassel The Staatstheater Kassel is a state-owned and operated German theater in Kassel, Germany. The theatre employs around 500 people. The opera house has 953 seats, the Playhouse Theatre 540 seats and the Fridericianum 99 seats. With its total number ...

, where he also was the artistic director of the "Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel,

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) until 2017. Ringborg led the

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at the

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Award Ceremony 2008, the last opera performances of Dame

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in Cologne (''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel ''Les amours du cheva ...

'', 2010), and conducted '' Elektra'' with the Stockholm Royal Opera at the

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in 2010. As first conductor ever, Patrik Ringborg was awarded the Opera Prize, founded by renowned Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet for the Swedish productions of ''

Das Rheingold ''Das Rheingold'' (; ''The Rhinegold''), Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic poetry, epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Literary cycle, cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nib ...

'' and ''

Parsifal ''Parsifal'' ( WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance ''Parzival'' of th ...

''.

Selected opera productions

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'': Freiburg Theatre (concert), 1997 *''

Cavalleria rusticana ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (; ) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 Cavalleria rusticana (short story), short story of the same name and subsequent ...

Pagliacci ''Pagliacci'' (; literal translation, 'Clowns') is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who mu ...

'': Gothenburg Opera, 1999 *''

Faust Faust ( , ) is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a ...

'': Aalto Theatre, Essen, 2000 *''

Hänsel und Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" (; ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). Hansel and Gretel are siblings who are abandoned in a forest and fall into the hands of a witch ...

'': Aalto Theatre, Essen, 2000 *''Orpheus'' by

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: Aalto Theatre, Essen, 2001 *''

Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). Their decisio ...

'': Gothenburg Opera, 2002 *''

Andrea Chénier ''Andrea Chénier'' () is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is based loosely on the life of the French poet An ...

'': Aalto Theatre, Essen, 2003 *''

Tristan und Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance ''Tristan and Iseult'' by Gottfried von Stras ...

'': Gothenburg Opera, 2003 *''

Die Walküre (; ''The Valkyrie''), Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic poetry, epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Literary cycle, cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was ...

'': Gothenburg Opera, 2004 *'' Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'': Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 2006 *''

'': Freiburg Theatre, 2006 *'' Elektra'': Freiburg Theatre, 2007 *''

Peter Grimes ''Peter Grimes'', Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem '' The Borough''. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional ...

'': Kassel State Theatre *''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

'': Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 2008 *''

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2008 *''

Dialogues des Carmélites ' (, ''Dialogues of the Carmelites''), FP 159, is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. Poulenc wrote the libretto for his second o ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2009 *'' Elektra'': Oslo Opera, 2009 *''

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2010 *''

'': Cologne Opera, 2010 *''

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'': Kassel State Theatre, 2010 *''

Lohengrin Lohengrin () is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story, which first appears in Wo ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2011 *''

'': Gothenburg Opera, 2011 *''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'': Kassel State Theatre, 2011 *''

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2011 *''

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2012 *''

Così fan tutte (''Women are like that, or The School for Lovers''), Köchel catalogue, K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2012 *''

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2013 *''

'': Royal Opera Stockholm, 2013 *''

Die Frau ohne Schatten ' (''The Woman without a Shadow''), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the V ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2014 *''

Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2015 *'' Notorious'': Gothenburg Opera, World Première 2015 *''

Die tote Stadt (German for ''The Dead City''), Opus number, Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It premiered in ...

'': Kassel State Theatre, 2016 *'' Elektra'': Kassel State Theatre, 2017 *'' Ariadna auf Naxos'': Gothenburg Opera, 2018 *'' Autumnsonata'': Malmö Opera, 2019

Selected recordings

*"Växlar". Stockholms Läns Blåsarsymfoniker. Conductor: Patrik Ringborg. Oeuvres for wind orchester from the 20th century by e.g.

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and

Erland von Koch Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film. Life and career Born in Stockholm as the son of compo ...

, Twin Music TMCD-18, 1993. *"Höga Visan". Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Radiokören. Conductors: Patrik Ringborg, Mats Rondin and Manfred Honeck. Works by

Natanael Berg Carl Natanael Rexroth-Berg (9 February 1879 – 14 October 1957) was a Swedish composer. Berg was born and died in Stockholm. He trained in veterinary medicine and began learning music by teaching himself. He later studied at the Stockholm C ...

, Phono Suecia PSCD 721, 2003.

References

Sources

* ''wagnerspectrum''. Werktreue bei Wagner. Der Dirigent Patrik Ringborg im Gespräch mit

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. Koenigshausen + Neumann Verlag 2005. * ''Nationalencyklopedin'', Supplementband 3. Article "Patrik Ringborg". NE Förlag 1999. * ''Die Walküre'' by Richard Wagner. Act II, Schott Music 2004. ISMN M-001-12529-1 * ''Die Walküre'' by Richard Wagner. Act III, Schott Music 2005. ISMN M-001-12974-9 * ''A Gallery Carol'' av 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., * Ruth Renée Reif: ''Die

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, ein historisches Porträt'', Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag, 1999. * ''Swedish choral music, a selective catalogue'', Stockholm: Svensk Musik, 1988, 60 p.

External links

Staatstheater Kassel German-language biography of Ringborg

Website on the conductor Patrik Ringborg

Patrik Ringborgs official Facebook page
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