These are some press comments on Verdi's "Tosca" at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, April 2008:

... In addition an at all times confident, extremely precisely acting conductor, the young Swede Patrik Ringborg, a master of the calculated ecstasy.
Patrik Ringborg's brilliant conducting
Cardinal praise however is due to the man, who not only masters the sensitive score with its surprising syncopations as well as changes in beat and tempo, lets the chromatic lustre glow, but indulges himself in well regulated beauty: Patrik Ringborg conducted the exquisitely disposed Staatskapelle and - as an alert, singer-friendly co-ordinator of the musical events on stage as well - ensured an almost perfect, deeply stirring performance.
(Thüringer Landeszeitung, 21.04.2008)

The conductor Patrik Ringborg provides sweetness and fire with the celebrated Staatskapelle, he allows the musicians to savour the lyric beauty in the score, lending insistence to the brusqueness when brass and percussion are allowed to roar, and yet the sound intensity never ends in itself, used in a clever way it enlivens the drama; only on very rare occasions and for a few bars it is difficult for the singers to stand up to the orchestra. As Scarpia is praised like a god by the chorus - a pallid, exsanguinous and will-less congregation, all offsets of the bigoted sacristan (powerful in this supporting role: Renatus Mészár) - the orchestra bellows; as Tosca and Cavaradossi dream of a future together before the execution the flute seems to snigger a taunting comment.
(Thüringer Allgemeine, 20.04.2008)

And finally the guest conductor Patrik Ringborg, new Generalmusikdirektor at the Kassel State Theater, who leads the Staatskapelle Weimar in a sumptuous panorama of sound, complex in the lyrical passages and with great vehemence in the dramatic scenes. Tosca in Weimar is a moment of bliss for the opera.
(Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 21.04.2008)
(Hersfelder Zeitung, 21.04.2008)

Staatskapelle, Opera Chorus of the DNT, Philharmonic Chorus Weimar and the children's chorus of the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium as well as the outstanding soloists are in full cry under the musical direction by Patrik Ringborg. ... Opera can rarely be experienced so purely and seldom a premiere was so unanimously acclaimed as on Saturday evening.
(Ostthüringer Zeitung, 21.04.2008)

The "Tosca" in Weimar presents many of the things distinguishing a successful opera performance: The Staatskapelle Weimar under Patrik Ringborg and the soloists, in particular in the leading parts, featured a consistently cogent performance.
(Akrützel, 24.04.2008)

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