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