Sweden’s Mälmo Opera has announced that Patrik Ringborg will be its principal guest conductor.

Ringborg is a renowned Swedish conductor whose repertory features over 90 works. He was music director of the Staatstheater Kassel between 2007 and 2017. His experience has taken him to the Semperoper in Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Volksoper Wien and the Norwegian National Opera, among many others.

He was also awarded the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet’s “Opera Prize” in 2014 for his work in Wagner’s “Parsifal” and “Das Rheingold.”

“I am delighted to be able to intensify my collaboration with Malmö Opera’s choir and orchestra. The opera choir is capable of great deeds of musicality and stagecraft, while the opera orchestra’s tonal flexibility and receptiveness to new ideas make every new production a joy. I am particularly looking forward to the varied repertoire – from the most played works to new twenty-first century Swedish operas,” said Ringborg in an official press statement.

During the 2021-22 season, Ringborg is set to conduct “Sisters” while in 2022-23, he will lead productions of “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Makropoulos Affair.”