HIGHLIGHTS

Collaboration with:

Beethoven Orchester Bonn | Collegium Musicum Basel | Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Deutsche Oper Berlin | Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern | 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 | Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival | Sinfonieorchester Münster | Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal | Staatskapelle Weimar Staatsoper Hannover | Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | Staatstheater Darmstadt | Staatstheater Nürnberg | Theater Chemnitz |

Benjamin Reiners

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

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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

MASKARADE – 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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