FULL DAVID RISBERG RECITAL Vänersborg 2024
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: DAVID RISBERG RECITAL
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Vänersborgs Museum, Sweden
- Recorded: August 8, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: David Risberg
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Christina Bjørkøe, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Nordic Song Festival
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The young Swedish baritone David Risberg has this season 2023/24 appeared in the role of Mr Darcy in American-Swedish composer Daniel Nelson’s opera Pride and Prejudice at the Norrland Opera in Sweden. David also covered the role of John in Mikael Karlsson’s opera Melancholia at the Royal Swedish Opera. David will this spring be a guest at the Drottningholm Court Theatre where he sings the male part in a children’s opera production. The upcoming season begins with his role debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with the Malmö Opera.
The season of 2022/23 included two role debuts; Marcello in La Bohème at the Malmö Opera and Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Swedish Opera and in the summer of 2023, David also sang Lord in the world premiere of Andefabriken/The Ghost Factory by Daniel Nelson at the Vadstena-Akademien.
David Risberg made his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in the 2021/22 season when he appeared in the role of the Crow in Benjamin Staern’s opera The Snow Queen, a role he prepared during his internship at the opera house in 2020. This was followed by two more roles on the same stage; Marco in Gianni Schicchi and Bello in La Fanciulla del West. David also appeared as Paul in Philip Glass’ Les Enfants terribles in Stockholm in a production by the independent opera company Kamraterna.
David Risberg graduated from the Opera program at the Stockholm University of the Arts in 2021 under the vocal tutelage of Eric Årman. The same year David appeared in the role of Alcasto in Den Andra Operan’s production of Argenore by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth at the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre Confidencen and he participated in Henry Purcell´s Hail! Bright Cecilia on the same stage.
In 2020 David was one of the recipients of the Confidencen Music and Opera Academy stipends. He has also been awarded scholarships by the Foundation the 25th of July 1988, as well as the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.
Alongside his studies David has built a reputation as an avid sacred music performer, as well as an accomplished Lieder singer, with much appreciated performances of Bach´s B-minor mass, St John’s passion, Fauré and Durflé Requiem among others.