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Collaboration with:

Beethoven Orchester Bonn | Collegium Musicum Basel | Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Deutsche Oper Berlin | Duisburger Philharmoniker | Konzerthausorchester Berlin | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Nationaltheater Mannheim | Nationaltheaterorchester Mannheim | Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock | Nürnberger Symphoniker | Oper Frankfurt | Oper Graz | Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música | Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie | Sinfonieorchester Münster | Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal | Staatskapelle Weimar | Staatsoper Hannover | Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | Staatstheater Darmstadt | Staatstheater Nürnberg | Theater Chemnitz |

Benjamin Reiners

Vita

Designated General Music Director of the Municipal Theaters of Chemnitz

Chief Conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic starting from the 2025/2026 season

Principal Guest Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel since the 2024/2025 season

 

Benjamin Reiners is one of the most renowned and experienced conductors of his generation. He is a sought-after guest conductor at major opera and concert houses as well as with prestigious symphony orchestras. His engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Frankfurt Opera, the Leipzig Opera, the Graz Opera, the State Theaters of Nuremberg and Darmstadt, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, and the Munich Radio Orchestra. At the Chemnitz Theaters, he conducted the ballet evening “Frühlingsrausch” in autumn 2023, featuring Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” and Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps.”

 

Following his positions as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and the Lower Saxony State Opera in Hanover, Benjamin Reiners advanced to Deputy General Music Director and First Kapellmeister at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. In 2018, Benjamin Reiners was appointed General Music Director of the state capital Kiel and became a board member of the Theater Kiel AöR starting from the 2019/2020 season. In Kiel, during the 2023/2024 season, he is leading new productions such as “La Bohème”, “Der Freischütz”, and the world premiere of “Buddenbrooks” by Ludger Vollmer.

 

The charismatic conductor has established successful collaborations with renowned artists and composers such as Frank Peter Zimmermann, Angela Denoke, Anja Harteros, Sondra Radvanovsky, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Guy Braunstein, Norbert Ernst, Michael Volle, Ana de la Vega, Bomsori Kim, Nils Mönkemeyer, Fabian Müller, and Hindemith Prize winner SJ Hanke.

 

With his wide stylistic range, creativity, and adventurous spirit, he sets dazzling accents in both opera and concert.

2024-08-15

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Media

 
theaterKIEL* | MANON LESCAUT
 
theaterKIEL* | DIE TOTE STADT
Deutsche Oper am Rhein | DIE FLEDERMAUS

Repertoire

Opera / Operetta

Harold Arlen DER ZAUBERER VON OZ
Béla Bartók
HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG
Vincenzo Bellini NORMA
Georges Bizet CARMEN
Jerry Bock ANATEVKA
Claude Debussy HOUSE OF USHER
Gaetano Donizetti VIVA LA MAMMA
  LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Stefan Johannes Hanke DER TEUFEL MIT DEN DREI GOLDENEN HAAREN
  OH, WIE SCHÖN IST PANAMA
Engelbert Humperdinck HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
Leoš Janácek JENUFA
Emmerich Kálmán GRÄFIN MARIZA
Erich Wolfgang Korngold DIE TOTE STADT
Eduard Künneke DER VETTER AUS DINGSDA
Franz Lehár DIE LUSTIGE WITWE
Ruggero Leoncavallo I PAGLIACCI
Frank Loesser HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Frederick Loewe MY FAIR LADY
Peitro Mascagni CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Jules Massenet
WERTHER
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart COSÌ FAN TUTTE
  DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
  DON GIOVANNI
  LA CLEMENZA DI TITO
  LA FINTA GIARDINIERA
  LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
  ZAIDE
Elisabeth Naske DIE OMAMA IM APFELBAUM
Carl Nielsen MASKERADE
Jacques Offenbach LES CONTES D´HOFFMANN
  ORPHEUS IN DER UNTERWELT
Cole Porter KISS ME KATE
Sergei Prokofjew DIE LIEBE ZU DEN 3 ORANGEN
Giacomo Puccini LA BOHÈME
  MADAMA BUTTERFLY
  MANON LESCAUT
  TURANDOT
Henry Purcell
DIDO UND AENEAS
Sergej Rachmaninow FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Jean-Philippe Rameau CASTOR ET POLLUX
Gioachino Rossini IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
  IL VIAGGIO A REIMS
  LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO
Dmitri Schostakowitsch LADY MACBETH VON MZENSK
Bedrich Smetana DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT
Johann Strauß DIE FLEDERMAUS
Arthur Sullivan THE MIKADO
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski EUGEN ONEGIN
  JOLANTA
Giuseppe Verdi AIDA
  DON CARLO
  ERNANI
  LA TRAVIATA
  OTELLO
  REQUIEM (szenisch)
  RIGOLETTO
  UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Richard Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER
  DER RING AN EINEM ABEND
Carl Maria von Weber DER FREISCHÜTZ
Kurt Weill AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY
  STREET SCENE

 

Press

MASKERADE – OPER FRANKFURT (REVIEWS)

Performances on January 10, 18, 26 and February 6, 9 and 14, 2025 Here are the most relevant quotes from reviews in the German and international press.This selection does not claim to be complete. Anaclase by IF Maskarade | Mascaradeopéra de Carl Nielsen …On avoue...
ALL REVIEWS BY BENJAMIN REINERS

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