These are some press comments on Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" at the Gothenburg Opera, February 2002:

... It reaches very far. Into the core of the heart. And I have seldom heard the chorus and the orchestra sounding so frightfully good as now under the baton of Patrik Ringborg. "Hammering passion" might be an overly used phrase. "Volcanic power" as well. But which words should one choose?
(Svenska Dagbladet, 04.02.2002)

The music drama flows most intensely and inspiredly from the orchestra pit. Nuances and details are tenderly cared for by the orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera under conductor Patrik Ringborg - the hero of the night.
(Expressen, 04.02.2002)

... This normality speaks against the intrinsic tone of the music, something which is yet again proven in the wonderful orchestral intermezzo introducing the third act. The orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera, under Patrik Ringborg's baton, manages to find the right combination of impressionistic shimmering sound and melodic intimacy. You find the richness of colour and the light touch which creates such agility of expression. So the music becomes electric and oscillates between the hallucinatory and the matter-of-factly stating.
(Göteborgsposten, 04.02.2002)

The parade number of the orchestra - the intermezzo of act 3 - shows their masterly capacity for wildly passionate as well as controlled, calm musical expressions, all together well balanced under the conductor Patrik Ringborg.
(GT, 04.02.2002)

The orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera showed last autumn ... what a first class opera orchestra it is and now does it again. Patrik Ringborg, who has developed into a exceptionally skilful opera conductor in Germany, keeps brisk tempi throughout, while having rhythm and phrasing under perfect control.
(Aftonbladet, 05.02.2002)

Patrik Ringborg manages the quality of the music with even care, without attempts of rhetoric outbursts.
(Dagens Nyheter, 04.02.2002)

What grips you is the fine shimmer of the orchestra, which under Patrik Ringborg's safe guidance plays on a rich dynamic palette. The musicians of the Gothenburg Opera once again show that they presently form the most even and skilful opera orchestra in Sweden.
(MusikDramatik, 02.2002)

So thank God for Puccini, thanks for the orchestra of the Opera under Patrik Ringborg...
(Sveriges Radio P4 - Radio Göteborg, 02.02.2002)

In the orchestra pit Patrik Ringborg enthusiasms his musicians to a wealth of shimmering sound and sensuality in mainly quick tempi, with flexible phrasing, richness in variety and dramatically well calculated dynamics.
(Hallandsposten, 07.02.2002)

Manon sounds great. ... A special appraisal should be awarded the Orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera, which under Patrik Ringborg played on the highest level, incredibly sensitively and with an overwhelmingly beautiful sound.
(Hallands Nyheter, 07.02.2002)

It is in many parts an appealing performance with beautiful music superbly performed by the orchestra of the Opera under the baton of Patrik Ringborg. The performance of the well-known intermezzo in the beginning of act 3 goes beyond most things.
(Ulricehamns Tidning, 07.02.2002)

Before the orchestral playing with its intense richness of tone under the baton of Patrik Ringborg one may only bow and say grateful thanks.
(Kungälvs-Posten, 07.02.2002)

The conductor Patrik Ringborg evokes a powerful and colourful orchestral playing, with eruptive waves, pathos and fire in the orchestra...
(Borås Tidning, 05.02.2002)

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