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DIE LIEBE ZU DEN 3 ORANGEN (PREMIERE) – THEATER KIEL
Opera Online by Achim Dombrowski

DIE FLEDERMAUS (PREMIERE) – DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN
Westfälische Rundschau by Lars von der Gönna
Vita
General Music Director of the Municipal Theaters of Chemnitz
Chief Conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic starting since the 2025/2026 season
Principal Guest Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel since the 2024/2025 season
Benjamin Reiners is Principal Guest Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel and, since the beginning of the 2025/26 season, General Music Director of the theatres of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz and Chief Conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic. Widely regarded as one of the most distinguished and versatile conductors of his generation, he is in high demand at leading opera houses, concert halls, and major symphony orchestras.
His engagements have taken him to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Oper Graz, the State Theatres of Nuremberg and Darmstadt, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, Staatskapelle Weimar, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, and the Munich Radio Orchestra.
Reiners’ distinguished theatre career has led him seamlessly through several traditional houses: after an initial engagement at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, he served as First Kapellmeister at Staatsoper Hannover, Deputy General Music Director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, and from 2019 to 2024 as General Music Director of the state capital Kiel.
Current engagements include his debuts at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, as well as return invitations to the Duisburg Philharmonic and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.
Renowned for his exceptionally broad, cross-epoch repertoire and his ability to take over major music theatre works without rehearsal or to revive them at the highest artistic level with minimal preparation, Reiners has also successfully premiered numerous contemporary works. With his stylistic versatility, wealth of ideas, and spirit of adventure, he brings outstanding artistic impetus to both opera and concert.
2025-08-11
Media
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 |
News & Infos
ROBERT-SCHUMANN-PHILHARMONIC – 1. SYMPHONY CONCERT
THEATER CHEMNITZ – LA TRAVIATA
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN MUSIK FESTIVAL – SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN PROMS
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