Benjamin Reiners
conductor
© Frank Molter
Duisburg born Benjamin Reiners is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut with our wonderful Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle double bill, to conduct the first revival of Tobias Kratzer's production of Nielsen's Masquerade. He took up the post of General Music Director in Kiel in 2019/20 where he has conducted many innovative concerts and new productions of Verdi’s Aida and Otello, Korngold’s The Dead City, Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, Die Zauberflöte and Così fan tutte, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges and Puccini's Manon Lescaut. He studied conducting and church music at the universities for music in Detmold and Cologne before working at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich as a soloists’ coach and Kapellmeister. In 2011/12 he was named 2nd Kapellmeister at Hannover State Opera, and promoted to 1st Kapellmeister two seasons later. He was then appointed Deputy General Music Director and 1st Kapellmeister at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim in 2016/17. He takes up the posts of General Music Director of the State Theatre in Chemnitz and Chief Conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic at the beginning of the 2025/26 season and is Chief Conductor of Collegium Musicum in Basel. He has worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Leipzig, Oper Graz, the staatstheaters in Darmstadt and Nürnberg, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Munich Radio Orchestra and Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin. He has given concerts with the Staatsorchester in Darmstadt, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Staatskapelle in Weimar, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen.