Patrik Ringborg
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Patrik Ringborg is a Swedish
conductor
.
After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
and with Kurt Bendix, Ringborg was a répétiteur
at the Royal Opera
in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director
and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the Semperoper
in Dresden
(1988) and at the Canadian Opera Company
(1992).
From 1993 to 1999, Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the Freiburg
Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003 he conducted at the Aalto Theatre
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 John Fiore and Essen's music director Stefan Soltesz (Neues Rheinland, August 2000). Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera
in 1998 with Tannhäuser
, and later was named its Principal Guest Conductor. He also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill
Festival 2000.
Until July 2007, Ringborg was chief conductor with the Freiburg
Opera. With the 2007/2008 season, Ringborg became music director at the State Theater in Kassel
, where he also is the leader of the "Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel, Gustav Mahler
). In June 2010 his contract was prolonged until 2017.
In 2008 he was appointed Hochschulrat at the Liszt School of Music Weimar
.
Ringborg led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
at the Nobel Prize
Award Ceremony 2008, the last opera performances of Dame Kiri te Kanawa (Der Rosenkavalier, Cologne 2010) and conducted Elektra with the Stockholm Royal Opera at the Opera Festival in Savonlinna in 2010.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
.
After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
Royal College of Music, Stockholm
The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...
and with Kurt Bendix, Ringborg was a répétiteur
Répétiteur
Répétiteur , repetitore , or Korrepetitor / Repetitor , originally from the French verb répéter meaning "to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearse"....
at the Royal Opera
Royal Swedish Opera
Kungliga Operan is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet.-Location and Environment:...
in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the Semperoper
Semperoper
The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden . It is located near the Elbe River in the historic center of Dresden, Germany.The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841...
in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
(1988) and at the Canadian Opera Company
Canadian Opera Company
The Canadian Opera Company is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and the third largest producer of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.-History:For 40 years until...
(1992).
From 1993 to 1999, Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003 he conducted at the Aalto Theatre
Aalto Theatre
The Aalto Theatre is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Essen, Germany. It was opened on 25 September 1988 with Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg...
in Essen
Essen
- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...
, 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 John Fiore and Essen's music director Stefan Soltesz (Neues Rheinland, August 2000). Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera
Gothenburg Opera
The Gothenburg Opera, , is an opera house in Gothenburg, Sweden. In marketing, the name is often spelled as "GöteborgsOperan", which however is not grammatically correct.- History :...
in 1998 with Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (opera)
Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...
, and later was named its Principal Guest Conductor. He also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
Festival 2000.
Until July 2007, Ringborg was chief conductor with the Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
Opera. With the 2007/2008 season, Ringborg became music director at the State Theater in Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
, where he also is the leader of the "Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel, Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
). In June 2010 his contract was prolonged until 2017.
In 2008 he was appointed Hochschulrat at the Liszt School of Music Weimar
Liszt School of Music Weimar
The Liszt School of Music Weimar is a college of music in Weimar, Germany.-The Hochschule:...
.
Ringborg led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is a Swedish orchestra based in Stockholm.The orchestra was founded in 1902 as the Stockholm Concert Society . The orchestra became a permanent ensemble in 1914. Since 1926, it has been based in the Stockholm Concert Hall...
at the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
Award Ceremony 2008, the last opera performances of Dame Kiri te Kanawa (Der Rosenkavalier, Cologne 2010) and conducted Elektra with the Stockholm Royal Opera at the Opera Festival in Savonlinna in 2010.
Selected opera productions
- Hänsel und Gretel: Aalto Theatre, Essen
- FaustFaust (opera)Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
: Aalto Theatre, Essen - Manon LescautManon LescautManon Lescaut is a short novel by French author Abbé Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité . It was controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication...
: Gothenburg OperaGothenburg OperaThe Gothenburg Opera, , is an opera house in Gothenburg, Sweden. In marketing, the name is often spelled as "GöteborgsOperan", which however is not grammatically correct.- History :... - Tristan und IsoldeTristan und IsoldeTristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting...
: Gothenburg OperaGothenburg OperaThe Gothenburg Opera, , is an opera house in Gothenburg, Sweden. In marketing, the name is often spelled as "GöteborgsOperan", which however is not grammatically correct.- History :... - Die WalküreDie WalküreDie Walküre , WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner...
: Gothenburg OperaGothenburg OperaThe Gothenburg Opera, , is an opera house in Gothenburg, Sweden. In marketing, the name is often spelled as "GöteborgsOperan", which however is not grammatically correct.- History :... - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk DistrictLady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District* For the story by Nikolai Leskov, please see Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District * For the opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, please see Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District...
: Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar - ToscaToscaTosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
: Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar - Das RheingoldDas Rheingoldis the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.Das Rheingold received its premiere at the National Theatre...
: Theater Freiburg - ElektraElektra (opera)Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
: Theater Freiburg - Peter GrimesPeter GrimesPeter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough...
: Staatstheater KasselStaatstheater KasselThe Staatstheater Kassel is a state-owned and -operated theater in Kassel, Germany.- History :A permanent theatre house already existed in Kassel during the first decade of the 17th century. It stood immediately next to the Ottoneum near the State Theatre which is now used as a Natural History... - SalomeSalome (opera)Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....
: Staatstheater Kassel - Dialogues des Carmélites: Staatstheater Kassel
- Die Meistersinger von NürnbergDie Meistersinger von NürnbergDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas still commonly performed today, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was first performed at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich, on June 21,...
: Staatstheater Kassel - ElektraElektra (opera)Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
: Oslo Opera - Der RosenkavalierDer RosenkavalierDer Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...
: Oper Köln
Sources
- wagnerspectrum. Werktreue bei Wagner. Der Dirigent Patrik Ringborg im Gespräch mit Egon Voss. Koenigshausen + Neumann Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-8260-3285-3
- Nationalencyklopedin, Supplementband 3. Article "Patrik Ringborg". NE Förlag 1999. ISBN 91-7133-740-7
- 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., ISBN 978-1-857-43174-2
- Ruth Renée Reif: Die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, ein historisches Porträt, Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-87407-319-X
- Swedish choral music, a selective catalogue, Stockholm: Svensk Musik, 1988, 60 p. ISBN 978-9185470495
Recordings
- "Växlar". Stockholms Läns Blåsarsymfoniker. Conductor: Patrik Ringborg. Oeuvres for wind orchester from the 20th century by e.g. Hugo AlfvénHugo Alfvénwas a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
, Anders Hillborg and Erland von KochErland von KochErland von Koch was a Swedish composer.-Life and career:Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch , Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations...
, Twin Music TMCD-18, 1993. - "Höga Visan". Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Radiokören. Conductors: Patrik Ringborg, Mats Rondin and Manfred Honeck. Works by Natanael BergNatanael BergCarl Natanael Rexroth-Berg was a Swedish composer.Berg trained in veterinary medicine and began learning music by teaching himself. He later studied at the Stockholm Conservatory as the pupil of Johan Lindegren...
, Phono Suecia PSCD 721, 2003.