About Patrik RINGBORG
Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden’s most prolific conductors, having conducted over 90 operas and a vast concert repertoire. From 1993, he worked with the opera companies of Freiburg and Essen before returning to Freiburg as Chief Conductor in 2006. Subsequently, he was appointed General Music Director at the State Theatre in Kassel in 2007, a position he held for a decade. There he conducted 27 new opera productions, including Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, and Die Frau ohne Schatten, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Turandot, and many more modern works like Dialogues des Carmélites, Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Reimann’s Lear, and Henze’s Orpheus.
He has worked with the Staatsoper Dresden, the Volksoper in Vienna, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, and the Norwegian National Opera. At the Cologne Opera, he conducted Der Rosenkavalier, including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s farewell performances. During the Summer of 2025, he made his debut at the Bregenzer Festspiele conducting the Wiener Symphoniker in Der Freischütz .
Patrik Ringborg has conducted over 30 German orchestras, including the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, and the Gürzenich Orchestra, as well as orchestras in many other countries.
In Sweden, he has worked with all the larger orchestras.
Maestro Ringborg has appeared regularly with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996 and conducted the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in 2008, as well as the Birgit Nilsson Prize Award Ceremony (honouring Yo-Yo Ma) in 2022.
After conducting Elektra with the Royal Swedish Opera in Savonlinna (2010), his Stockholm opera debut followed in 2013 with a new production of Parsifal, directed by Christof Loy. He returned in 2016 to conduct the world première of Medea by Daniel Börtz.
The Gothenburg Opera appointed him Principal Guest Conductor following his debut in 1998 with Tannhäuser. He subsequently conducted all Wagner productions there until 2006 and later returned for new productions of Salome, Notorious (World Première), Ariadne auf Naxos, and Herr Arnes penningar.
He has been a guest at Malmö Opera since 1992 and has held the position of Principal Guest Conductor since 2022. Following Salome, his 9th opera production there will be Lohengrin this Autumn.
Patrik Ringborg was awarded the Opera Prize of the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in 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. In 2022, King Carl XVI Gustaf conferred him with the gold medal Litteris et Artibus, and in 2023, he received the Hugo Alfvén Gold Medal.
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Opera repertoire
Orchestral repertoire below
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d'Albert: Tiefland
B
Backman: På andra sidan havet (World Première)
Bartók: A kékszakállú herceg vára
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
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Donizetti: Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Donizetti: Viva la Mamma (Frazzi Version)
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Fagerlund: Höstsonaten
Forssell: Death and the Maiden
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Gefors: Notorious
Gefors: Parken
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Glass: Akhnaten
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna Version)
Gounod: Faust
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
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Handel: Giulio Cesare
Henze: Orpheus (Vienna Version - German Première)
Holten: Schlagt sie tot!
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
J
Janáček: Jenůfa (Brno Version)
Janáček: Věc Makropulos
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Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Krenek: Der Diktator
Künneke: Der Vetter aus Dingsda
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Leoncavallo: I pagliacci
M
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana
Massenet: Werther
Moralec: The Shining*
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Prague/Vienna Versions)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
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Nystroem: Herr Arnes penningar
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Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
Orff: Carmina Burana
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Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood (German Première)
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges
Puccini: La Bohème
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Puccini: Suor Angelica
Puccini: Tosca
Puccini: Turandot (Alfano/Berio Versions)
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Reimann: Lear
Rossini: La Cenerentola
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Spohr: Jessonda
J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss: Eine Nacht in Venedig (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
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
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
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von Weber: Der Freischütz
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Lohengrin
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner: Parsifal
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Versions 1845 and 1860)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Die Walküre
Weill: Mahagonny-Songspiel
Weill: One Touch of Venus
Weill: Die sieben Todsünden
Weill: Der Silbersee
Weill: Der Zar lässt sich photographieren
Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi
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Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
*planned
Orchestral repertoire
in excerpts
A
Adams, John: The Chairman Dances – Foxtrot from Nixon in China
Addinsell, Richard: Warsaw Concerto
Adés, Thomas: Tevot
Alfvén, Hugo: Dalecarlian Rhapsody – Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 Op. 47
Alfvén, Hugo: Elegy from the Gustaf II Adolf Suite Op. 49
Alfvén, Hugo: Festival Overture Op. 52
Alfvén, Hugo: Festspel Op. 25
Alfvén, Hugo: The Mountain King Op. 37
Alfvén, Hugo: Sorgmarsch till Hjalmar Brantings minne
Alfvén, Hugo: Suite from The Prodigal Son
Alfvén, Hugo: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 Op. 19
Alfvén, Hugo: Symphony No. 2 D major Op. 11
Andersson, Magnus F: Under bron, under tiden (World Première)
Atterberg, Kurt: Suite No. 3 for violin, viola and strings Op. 19 No. 1
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Bach, J. S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048
Bach, J.S: Christmas Oratorio, Part 5 BWV 248
Bach, J. S.: Coffee Cantata BWV 211
Bach, J. S.: Double Concerto D minor BWV 1043
Bach, J. S.: Easter Oratorio BWV 249*
Bach, J. S.: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069
Bach, J. S.: Triple Concerto A minor BWV 1044
Bäck, Sven-Erik: Motets for String Orchestra
Baermann, Heinrich: Adagio D flat major for Clarinet and Strings
Barber, Samuel: Adagio for Strings
Barber, Samuel: Andromache’s Farewell op. 39
Barber, Samuel: Knoxwille in Summer 1915 Op. 24
Bartók, Béla: Concerto for Orchestra Sz. 116 BB 123
Bartók, Bela: Divertimento for Strings Sz. 113
Bartók, Béla: Viola Concerto Op. post
Beach, Amy: Piano Concerto
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
Berg, Natanael: Song of Songs
Berlioz, Hector: Le Carnival Romain Op. 9
Berlioz, Hector: La Mort de Cléopatre H. 36
Berlioz, Hector: Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14
Bernstein, Leonard: Fancy Free
Berwald, Franz: Symphony No. 4 E flat major Naïve
Berwald, Franz: Violin Concerto C sharp minor Op. 2
Bizet, Georges: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1
Bizet, Georges: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Bizet, Georges: Carmen Suite No. 1
Bizet, Georges: Carmen Suite No. 2
Bizet, Georges: Symphony No. 1 C major
Bloch, Ernst: Schelomo Op. 47
Borodin, Alexander: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Börtz, Daniel: Sinfonia 13 (World Première)
Boulanger, Nadia: D’un soir triste
Brahms, Johannes: Alto Rhapsody Op. 53
Brahms, Johannes: A German Requiem Op. 45
Brahms, Johannes: Hungarian Dances
Brahms, Johannes: Tragic Ouverture Op. 81
Brahms, Johannes: Violin Concerto D major Op. 77
Britten, Benjamin: Les Illuminations Op. 18
Britten, Benjamin: Matinées musicales Op. 24
Britten, Benjamin: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31
Britten, Benjamin: Soirées musicales Op. 9
Britten, Benjamin: War Requiem Op. 66
Britten, Benjamin: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34
Bruch, Max: Double Concert for Violin and Viola Op. 88
Bruch, Max: Kol Nidrei for Violoncello and Orchestra Op. 47
Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto G minor No. 1 Op. 26
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 4 E flat major (2nd and 3rd Versions)
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 7 E major
Byström, Britta: Fanfar für die Verwandlung (World Première)
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Chabrier, Emmanuel: España
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Deux Airs de Trompette
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Extremum Dei Judicium
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Pie Jesu
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Te Deum
Chopin, Frédéric: Piano Concerto No. 1 E minor, Op. 11
Cikker, Jan: Blessed Are The Dead after Heinrich Schütz
Copland, Aaron: Fanfare for the Common Man
Copland, Aaron: Hoe Down from Rodeo Suite
Corelli, Arcangelo: Concerto Grosso G minor Op. 6 Christmas Concert
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Dahl, Ingolf: Saxophone Concerto
Debussy, Claude: La Damoiselle Élue
Debussy, Claude: La Mer
Debussy, Claude: Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
Dukas, Paul: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Duparc, Henri: Chanson triste
Duparc, Henri: Extase
Duparc, Henri: L'Invitation au Voyage
Duparc, Henri: La Vie Antérieure
Dutilleux, Henri: Tout un monde lointain...
Dvořák, Antonín: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra B minor Op. 104
Dvořák, Antonín: Requiem Op. 89
Dvořák, Antonín: Stabat Mater Op. 58
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Eklund, Hans: Chamber Concert
Elgar, Edward: Cello Concerto E minor Op. 85
Elgar, Edward: Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1
Elgar, Edward: Serenade E minor Op. 20
Elgar, Edward: Sospiri Op. 70
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de Falla, Manuel: The Threecornered Hat Suite
von Flotow, Friedrich: Jubilation Ouverture
Franck, César: Symphony D minor
G
Gardel, Carlos: Tangos
Gershwin, George: Rhapsody in Blue
Ginastera, Alberto: Concerto for Harp Op. 25
Glanert, Detlev: Fifteen Caricatures (German Première)
Glanert, Detlev: Nine Caricatures
Glass, Louis: Elves' Hill Suite
Gounod, Charles: Messe Solenelle de Sainte Cécile
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
Grieg, Edvard: Three Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar Op. 22
Gulda, Friedrich: Cello Concerto
Gubaidulina, Sofia: Im Anfang war der Rhythmus
Gubaidulina, Sofia: Fairytale Poem
H
Halvorsen, Johan: Symphony No. 2 Fatum
Handel, G. F.: Concerto Grosso A major Op. 6 Nr. 11
Handel, G. F.: Organ Concerto No. 1 G minor Op. 4 No. 1
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus: Miserae
Haydn, Joseph: Cello Concerto No. 1 C major
Haydn, Joseph: Cello Concerto No. 2 D major
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 E flat major Hob. VIIe:1
Hensel, Lothar: Fantasia sobre un choclo (after Astor Piazzolla)
Henze, Hans Werner: Orpheus - Vienna Version (German première)
Hillborg, Anders: Cello Concerto
Hillborg, Anders: Paulinesisk procession
Hindemith, Paul: Concert Music for Wind Orchestra Op. 41
Hindemith, Paul: Five Pieces Op. 44
Hindemith, Paul: Mathis der Maler Symphony
Hindemith, Paul: Trauermusik
Holst, Gustav: St. Paul’s Suite Op. 118
Honegger, Arthur: Le Roi David
Hosokawa: Blossomin II
Howells, Herbert: Hymnus Paradisi
I
Ibert, Jacques: Concertino da camera
Ibert, Jacques: Divertissement
J
Jansson, Gunnar: Sinfonia Concertante
K
Kagel, Mauricio: Les Idées Fixes
Khachaturian, Aram: Maskerade Suite
Khachaturian, Aram: Sabre Dance from Gayaneh
Koch, Erland von: Piano Concerto No. 3
Komzák, Karl: Bad'ner Mad'ln
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Escape Me Never Suite
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: The Sea Hawk Suite
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: The Snowman Suite
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Violin Concerto D major Op. 35
Krenek, Ernst: Three Merry Marches Op. 44
L
Lalo, Édouard: Symphonie espagnole Op. 21
Lara, Agustin: Granada
Larsson, Lars-Erik: God in Disguise Op. 24
Larsson, Lars-Erik: Pastoral Suite Op. 19
Larsson, Lars-Erik: Symphony No. 3 Op. 34
Lehár, Franz: Gold and Silver
Lidholm, Ingvar: Greetings from an Old World
Lidholm, Ingvar: Kontakion
Lidholm, Ingvar: Poesis
Lidholm, Ingvar: Three Songs
Ligeti, György: Mysteries of the Macabre (Chamber Ensemble Version)
Lincke, Paul: Berliner Luft (Version Berlin Philharmonic)
Lindström, Emmy: Clarinet Concerto At the Hills of Hampstead Heath
Lindström, Emmy: Sång utan ord (World Première)
Liszt, Franz: Piano Concerto No. 2 A major S. 125
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Mahler, Gustav: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Mahler, Gustav: Blumine
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: Symphony No. 10 (Zemlinsky and Ratz Versions)
Mahler, Gustav: From the Wunderhorn Songs
Martinsson, Rolf: Ich denke dein
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Hebriden Ouverture Op. 26
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Ouvertüre für Harmoniemusik Op. 24
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Paulus Ouverture Op. 36
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Symphony No. 5 D major Op. 107 Reformation
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Violin Concerto E minor Op. 64
Mendoza, Elena: ... tiempo (World Première)
Messiaen, Olivier: Un sourire
Milhaud, Darius: Le Bœuf sur le Toit op. 58
Milhaud, Darius: La Création du Monde
Milhaud, Darius: Machines Agricoles
Morricone, Ennio: Gabriel’s Oboe
Morthensson, Jan W: Energia I
Mozart, W. A.: Clarinet Concerto A major KV 622
Mozart, W. A.: Divertimento B flat major KV 137
Mozart, W. A.: Divertimento D major KV 136
Mozart, W. A.: Divertimento F major KV 138
Mozart, W. A.: Eine kleine Nachtmusik G major KV 525
Mozart, W. A.: Exultate, jubilate – Motet KV 165
Mozart, W. A.: Horn Concerto No. 4 E flat major KV 495
Mozart, W. A.: Laudate Dominum KV 339
Mozart, W. A.: Mentre ti lascio, oh figlia KV 513
Mozart, W. A.: Piano Concerto No. 21 C major Elvira Madigan KV 467
Mozart, W. A.: Requiem KV 626
Mozart, W. A.: Serenata notturna D major KV 239
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
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Nelson, Daniel: The Rave Chronicles
Nielsen, Carl: Aladdin Suite Op. 34
Nielsen, Carl: Helios Overture Op. 17
Nielsen, Carl: Springtime in Funen Op. 42
Nilsson, Anders: Cello Concerto (World Première)
Nystedt, Knut: Pia memoria lux aeternam
O
Offenbach, Jacques: American Eagle Waltz
Offenbach, Jacques: Schüler Polka
Orff, Carl: Carmina Burana of Hoffmann
P
Pärt, Arvo: cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
Pärt, Arvo: Fratres (version 1983)
Patterson, Paul: Little Red Riding Hood
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm: Jungfrun under lind
Pettersson, Allan: Barfotasånger
Pettersson, Allan: Symphony No. 8*
Petyrek, Felix: March
Piazzolla, Astor: Tangos
Prokofiev, Sergej: Peter and the Wolf Op. 67
Prokofiev, Sergej: Piano Concerto No. 3 C major Op. 26
Prokofiev, Sergej: Romeo and Julia Op. 101
Purgina, Julia: Vortex Peccatorum
R
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Piano Concerto No. 2 C minor Op. 18
Ravel, Maurice: Bolero
Ravel, Maurice: Ma mère l'Oye
Ravel, Maurice: Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Ravel, Maurice: Tzigane
Ravel, Maurice: La Valse
Respighi, Ottorino: Antiche danze ed arie, 3rd Suite
Respighi, Ottorino: I Pini di Roma
Rimskij-Korsakov, Nikolai: Schéhérazade Op. 35
Roman, Johann Helmich: The Drottningholm Music
Roman, Johann Helmich: Flute Concerto G major IB 74
Rosenberg, Hilding: Golgotha
Rosenberg, Hilding: Symphony No. 4 The Apocalypse
Rossini, Gioacchino: Duetto buffo di due gatti
Rota, Nino: From The Godfather
Rota, Nino: Il passo d'addio from 8 1/2
Rózsa, Miklós: From Ben-Hur
Roussel, Albert: Résurrection Op. 4
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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Danse macabre Op. 40
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Havanaise Op. 83
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Introduction et rondo capriccios
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Violoncello Concerto No. 1 A minor Op. 33
Satie, Erik: Gymnopédies (Arr.: Claude Debussy)
Sandström, Sven-David: The Eleventh Dawn
Schacher, Rodolphe: Märchenbilder
Schickele, Peter: Eine kleine Nichtmusik
Schoenberg, Arnold: Chamber Symphony No. 1 Op. 9
Schoenberg, Arnold: A Survivor from Warsaw Op. 46
Schoenberg, Arnold: Theme and Variations Op. 43a
Schoenberg, Arnold: Transfigured Night Op. 4
Schubert, Franz: Lazarus D 689
Schubert, Franz: Rondo for Violin and Strings A major D 438
Schubert, Franz: From Rosamunde Op. 26 D 797
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 Overture Op. 115
Schumann, Robert: Overture, Scherzo and Finale Op. 52
Schumann, Robert: Symfony No. 4 d minor Op. 120
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Chamber Symphony Op. 73a
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra Op. 35
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Festive Overture A major Op. 96
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Galop, Romance and Folk Feast from The Gadfly
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Moscow Cheryomushki Suite
Shostakovich, Dimitri: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 102
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: Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte Op. 37 No. 5
Sibelius, Jean: Rakastava (Kanteletar) Op. 14
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No. 2 D major Op. 43
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No. 7 C major Op. 105
Sibelius, Jean: Valse triste Op. 44 No. 1
Skriabin, Alexander: Poème de Feu Op. 60
Skriabin, Alexander: Symphony No. 2 C minor Op. 29
Smetana, Bedrich: Vltava (The Moldau) from Ma Vlast
Söderman, August: Ouverture to Schiller’s The Maid of Orléans
Söderman, August: King Heimer and Aslög
Spohr, Louis: Jubilate Deo
Steiner, Max: Now Voyager Suite
Staern, Benjamin: Jubilate
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Adagio Op. 20 No. 5 (Arr. Stig Rybrant)
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Cantata Sången
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Excelsior!
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Op. 4 No. 1
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Florez and Blanzeflor Op. 3
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: I skogen (Arr. Adolf Wiklund)
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Månsken Op. 20 No. 4 (Arr. Stig Rybrant)
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Piano Concerto No. 2 D minor Op. 23
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Prélude & Bourrée
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Serenade F major Op. 31
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Symphony No. 1 F major
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Symphony No. 2 G minor Op. 34
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Vid fönstret Op. 20 No. 2 (Arr. Stig Rybrant)
Strauß, Eduard: Bahn frei! Polka Op. 45
Strauss, Johann (Jun.) and Josef: Pizzicato-Polka
Strauss, Johann (Jun.): Wide selection of works
Strauss, Johann (Sen.): Memories of Ernst op. 126
Strauss, Johann (Sen.): Radetzky-Marsch Op. 228
Strauss, Josef: Wide selection of works
Strauss, Richard: Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite Op. 60
Strauss, Richard: Death and Transfiguration Op. 24
Strauss, Richard: Don Juan Op. 20
Strauss, Richard: Duet Concertino
Strauss, Richard: Metamorphosen
Strauss, Richard: Rosenkavalier Suite
Strauss, Richard: Serenade for Winds E flat major Op. 7
Strauss, Richard: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28
Stravinsky, Igor: Circus Polka for Orchestra
Stravinsky, Igor: Dumbarton Oaks - Concerto in Es
Stravinsky, Igor: Pulcinella
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Tailleferre, Germaine: Ouverture from Zoulaïna
Takemitsu, Toru: Requiem
Tarrodi, Andrea: Ascent
Tarrodi, Andrea: Camelopardalis
Tarrodi, Andrea: Harp Concerto Choryn
Tarrodi, Andrea: Liguria
Tarrodi, Andrea: Serenade in Seven Colours
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Recorder Concerto C major
Tiessen, Heinz: Foxtrot für Berlin im Licht Op. 39 No. 1
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Nutcracker</em> Op. 71
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
Tchaikovsky, Peter: 1812 Ouverture
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Piano Concerto No. 1 B flat minor Op. 23
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Souvenir d'un lieu cher
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symphony No. 4 f minor Op. 36
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symphony No. 5 E minor Op. 64
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symfony No. 6 B minor Op. 74 Pathétique
Tchaikovsky, Peter: The Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33
Toch, Ernst: Spiel Op. 39
Turina, Joaquin: Danzas fantasticas
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Vaughan-Williams, Ralph: Fantasia on Greensleaves
Vaughan-Williams, Ralph: Tuba Concerto
Vivaldi, Antonio: Bassoon Concerto A minor
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto G minor for Strings
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto for two Trumpets and Strings C major RV 537
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto for three Violins and Strings RV 278
Vivaldi, Antonio: Flautino Concerto C major Op. 44 RV 443
Vivaldi, Antonio: Flute Concerto The Goldfinch Op. 103 No. 3 RV 53
Vivaldi, Antonio: Le Quattro Stagioni Op. 8
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Wagner, Richard: Siegfried-Idyll
Wagner, Richard: Wesendonck Songs
Warlock, Peter: Capriol Suite
Waxman, Frank: Carmen Fantasie
Weill, Kurt: Berlin im Licht (Version for Wind Orchestra)
Weill, Kurt: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
Weill, Kurt: Mahagonny Songspiel
Weill, Kurt: Tango Angèle
Weill, Kurt: Vom Tod im Wald
Williams, John: Return of the Jedi Suite
Williams, John: Star Wars Suite
Wolf, Hugo: Penthesilea Suite
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno: I gioielli di Madonna Suite
Wood, Sir Henry: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
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von Zemlinsky, Alexander: The Little Mermaid Op. 43
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WEBER:
DER
FREISCHÜTZ
17.07.2025
Patrik Ringborg is new on the podium
Musically, this Freischütz represents a leap forward compared to last year’s premiere. Conductor Patrik Ringborg and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra cultivate an elastic soundscape from which details emerge quite naturally. Everything sounds like it is being heard in a new way. Given the acoustic situation where the orchestra’s performance is broadcast from the Festspielhaus to the outside via a sound system, it’s astonishing how Ringborg tweaks the dynamics and tempo.
Münchner Merkur, 18.07.2025
In Carl Maria von Weber’s Freischütz, the magnificent Vienna Symphony Orchestra offers a match for Philipp Stölzl’s devilishly spectacular production on the lake.
Is there a danger that the music is being pushed into the background by the Las Vegas-like show effects? Yes. But that doesn’t happen in the current Bregenz Freischütz, thanks primarily to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Patrik Ringborg. The top Viennese orchestra plays with impressive precision, soulfulness, and dedication, and Michael Vogt’s short cello solos are dreamlike. And the Swedish conductor delves even deeper in his interpretation than Enrique Mazzola did last year, unearthing moods in the early Romantic work that are magically captivating in their diversity and intensity.
Der Standard, 18.07.2025
Musically, this Freischütz scores compared to last year in yet another respect: Patrik Ringborg’s debut in Bregenz and at the helm of the once again brilliant Wiener Symphoniker is remarkable. The former Freiburg Principal Conductor and later interim Music Director is an expert in grand Romantic musical arcs and shines with his incredibly exciting conducting.
Badische Zeitung, 18.07.2025
After all, Patrik Ringborg is a careful, conscientious, and energetic champion of Weber and his intense, sensual and intelligent music. On the occasion of their 125th anniversary (they have performed annually in Bregenz since 1960), the Vienna Symphony Orchestra plays flawlessly, with a beautiful sound, a brisk and dramatic tempo, and powerful drive.
Opernfreund, 20.07.2025
Such scenic opulence finds its equal in the orchestra pit, where Patrik Ringborg, a true sorcerer of sound, breathes life into the spellbinding score with the Wiener Symphoniker animated by the spirits, landscapes, and emotions of the libretto. Not for a single moment did the evening falter musically: it was pure delight throughout, where a masterfully crafted orchestral coherence brought out the exuberant richness of the composition with remarkable brilliance. Let’s also applaud the beauty and power of the Prager Philharmonischer Chor, conducted by Lukáš Kozubík. A true force of nature!
Opera Diary, 20.07.25
But it should also be noted that conductor Patrik Ringborg truly succeeded in infusing the ensemble with an irresistible drive, thanks to an energetic beat, sustained tempi and clear nuances. Overall, it was a pleasure to experience this refreshed and improved show, guaranteeing an excellent evening.
Forum Opéra, 20.07.25
Music as a Force of Nature
Under the sensitive direction of Patrik Ringborg, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra elicits a colourful expressiveness from Weber’s score, which oscillates between dramatic power and chamber music precision. The integration of noise and sound levels into the orchestral structure is particularly noteworthy. The sounds of nature, such as the boar’s roar, the rumbling of the wolf’s gorge or the whispering of the forest, are not created as external effects, but grow organically out of the music itself – an acoustic fabric of beguiling plasticity.
The two choirs carry a significant part in the musical quality. The Festival Choir, directed by Benjamin Lack, and the Prague Philharmonic Choir, under the direction of Lukáš Kozubík, act with vocal clarity and dramatic presence. Their precise interplay lends the performance impressive power and strong resonance.
Vorarlberger Nachrichten, 18.07.25
As so often, the Bregenz Festival has engaged outstanding singers, masterfully supported by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted for the first time by the Swede Patrik Ringborg. Anyone who enjoys dramatic and poetic musical theatre will unquestionably get their money’s worth.
Augsburger Allgemeine, 18.07.2025
In the second Freischütz Summer, the acting no longer seems so dominant; the balance is just right, and the music always carries the performance. And the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Patrik Ringborg, amplified to a monumental sound, plays excellently.
Alb Bote Münsingen, 19.07.25
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic Choir were led by the fantastic, young and charismatic conductor Patrik Ringborg.
Angora, 10.08.2025
In his Bregenz debut, Patrik Ringborg leads the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Choir to new depths. Critics hailed his interpretation as a leap forward in musical coherence and Romantic expression. Ringborg’s dynamic pacing reveals the emotional arc of Der Freischütz, balancing chamber-like delicacy with heroic, orchestral sweep. His integration of sound effects – the wolf’s growl, thunder rumble, mist whispers – emerges organically from the music rather than being forced add-ons. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra gives a richly expressive yet nimble sound throughout. Ringborg and the orchestra preserve Weber’s leitmotifs, lyricism and eerie moments with flair and clarity – delivering music that honours Romantic tradition.
European News Agency, 08.08.25
Nystroem:
Herr Arnes Penningar
19.02.2022
What a different, authentic, and original work Herr Arnes penningar by Gösta Nystroem is — especially when conducted as powerfully, energetically, and transparently as by Patrik Ringborg, who motivates the fabulous orchestra and the at least equally fabulous chorus of the Gothenburg Opera to fantastic musical achievement. Ringborg benefits from the fact that Herr Arnes penningar, Nystroem’s only contribution to the genre, was originally conceived for radio broadcast, with the music thus clearly placed at the forefront (which also here leads to some strong oratorical moments).
Opernwelt
WAGNER:
DIE WALKüre
Gothenburg Opera, 2004
In the production of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Gothenburg Opera, the music is reborn. Above anyone else, the conductor Patrik Ringborg should be highlighted. He brings an extraordinary wealth of nuance to the orchestral playing.
All focus is on the music, on the continuously changing emotions that give unexpected entrances to the drama. Or rather: to the chamber play, hiding behind all the sumptuousness and mythological complexity. A quite different Wagner resounds, closer to Strindberg and Ibsen than you would initially expect. A portrayer for concerns and fissures of the bourgeois family, telling the story of the complex relationship between the individual and society: To belong or not to belong, build up or destroy?
The placement of the orchestra on stage instead of in the pit is also a fortunate choice. Now, the communication between the singers and the instrumental writing comes into focus, and the construction of the leitmotifs becomes understandable in a different way.
If someone should be designated hero of the evening, it is conductor Patrik Ringborg. Like in last season’s production of Tristan und Isolde, he succeeds in bringing out an extraordinary agility and richness of nuance, and we can already notice that Ringborg is on his way to creating his own identity as conductor through this surprisingly fresh approach to Wagner. Most impressive is maybe the chamber music touch, the lightness and flexibility, as in the solo passages for cello, bass clarinet, bassoon and oboe. So beneficially far from the heavy and bombastic Wagnerian playing. So unreservedly beautiful.
The simplicity and transparency are what most distinguish this performance, a transparency that is absolutely to Wagner’s advantage. The music is reborn and lives its own life, beyond knightly armour and over-ideological interpretations.
Göteborgsposten
STRAUSS: SALOME
Gothenburg Opera, 2011
The singers might drown in theatrical effects; however, never in the orchestral sound. The fantastic conductor Patrik Ringborg succeeds in making the huge orchestra sound unbelievably slender.
Svenska Dagbladet
https://www.svd.se/a/f3c94b1d-a0d3-3a2c-a6fe-c7f1ae904f14/magnifika-sangare-drunknar-i-teatertrick
STRAUSS: ELEKTRA
Theater Freiburg, 2007
This suits the conducting style of chief conductor Patrik Ringborg well. He leads the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra from one climax to the next, yet controls fervor and ecstasy like a psychoanalyst on the podium. Strauss would have been delighted by such sensitivity toward his "already so loudly composed" work. An evening full of pleasant surprises …
Opernwelt
Stenhammar: Sången
17.11.2023
Öppningen ”Min sång, mitt land – du mina sångers land” slår an en patriotisk patetik som snart ger vika för skimrande dagrar av svävande solosopran och ljusa barnröster.
Efter det ofta spelade instrumentala mellanspelet – en stunds Brucknersk högtidlighet – följer en ljuvligt jublande musik. De många stämmorna flätar sig till ett grönskande lövverk, mångskiftande och färgrikt. Ljus och rymd fyllde Berwaldhallen under Patrik Ringborgs både dramatiska och transparenta ledning.
Dagens Nyheter
Alfvén: Bergakungen
01.12.2022
Dirigenten Patrik Ringborg gör Malmö symfoniorkester till ett entusiastiskt redskap på Malmö Live, och besvärjer myten om naturens undergång med Alfvéns storslagna orkesterpalett och listiga ledmotiv: kromatiskt slingrande som Richard Strauss, glittrande dansant som Bizet, och svärtad som Weill och Sibelius.
Dagens Nyheter
Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2
22.09.2021
Att den symfonin utgör krönet på den inledande konserten av 150-åringen Stenhammars festival på Konserthuset är lite av ett vågspel. Precis som varit fallet med operan Tirfing, felaktigt avfärdad som Wagner-epigoneri, har Stenhammars symfoni dragits med en förlorarstämpel.
Men med Patrik Ringborg som dirigent hörs något annat. Med sina årtionden i Tyskland kan han den tyska sensibiliteten utan och innan: det som låter som Brahms F-dursymfoni i inledningssatsen får göra det ohämmat, och det något snabba andantet tillåts fylla samma roll som andantet i Bruckners fyra har. Bara det att det här är folkvisan ”Kristallen den fina” som antyds. Ringborg får musiken att bli en palimpsest där skriften ligger i lager på lager. Musiken minner om ett förflutet, en annan värld som Stenhammar själv kallade ”idyllisk Bruckner”, men som idag blir närmast skakande genom att tala innerligt om en tid före katastroferna – krigen och klimatet. En klyvning uppstår i tonen mellan modernitet och idyll.
Svenska Dagbladet
https://www.svd.se/a/y48M1r/ringborg-ger-symfonin-en-praktfull-revansch
After yesterday’s première, the first reviews are in. A huge success for the Vienna Symphony and Patrik Ringborg.