The young Swedish baritone David Risberg will this season appear as Mr Darcy in American-Swedish composer David Nelson’s opera Pride and Prejudice at the Norrland Opera in Sweden. David also covers the role of John in Mikael Karlsson’s opera Melancholia at the Royal Swedish Opera. The previous season 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.
David Risberg made his house 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 the role of Bello in La Fanciulla del West. The summer of 2022, David 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 the spring of 2021. In the summer of 2021 David Risberg appeared in the role of Alcasto in Den Andra Operan’s production of Argenore by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth at the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre Confidencen. David has also participated in Henry Purcell´s Hail! Bright Cecilia on the same stage.
Throughout his studies David has enriched his repertoire by a great selection of essencial roles, under the vocal tutelage of Eric Årman. Amongst them Giorgio Germont in La traviata (exerpts) and Silvio in Pagliacci. For his examination he performed both the role of Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte and Marcello in La Bohème.
In the summer of 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.
November 2023