These are some press comments on a concert performance of Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins" at the kurt weill fest, February 2000:

The renowned Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen played under the young Swedish conductor Patrik Ringborg, also the Artistic Director of the kurt weill fest 2000 in Dessau. With impressive agility and greatest attentiveness he cared for an exquisitely interesting and overall consistent performance. The nuances in the music are explored in profoundest detail.
There were standing ovations in the outsold Anhaltisches Theater, probably in particular for Milva, but also deservedly for the other singing soloists, the orchestra as well as the conductor.
(Zerbster Volksstimme, 22.02.2000)

Having played Mozart's "Don Giovanni"-Overture on the highest technical level the orchestra from Bremen (Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie) implemented the "Transfigured Night" by Arnold Schoenberg. The young conductor Patrik Ringborg mastered the rugged as well as the poetic passages of a provokingly erotic world of senses. The performance of the ballet "The Seven Deadly Sins" then was of quite a different kind. ... Not an easy task for Patrik Ringborg, who nevertheless succeeded in tying the diverse powers together and crowning the swing-like edgy tone with an excellent orchestral direction.
(Brandenburger Stadtkurier, 21.02.2000)
(Märkische Allgemeine, 21.02.2000)
(Potsdamer Tageszeitung, 21.02.2000)
(Zerbster Volksstimme, 21.02.2000)

The frail staging of the in 1933 created Brecht/Weill piece succeeds under Patrik Ringborg's conducting. ... In total a score of intensity and great power of expression arises.
(Märkische Oderzeitung, 21.02.2000)

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