Constantin Trinks – Conductor
A popular guest of Bayerisch Staatsoper, ConstantConstantin Trinks’ 2024/25 highlights include Berlin Staatsoper where he makes his debut conducting Claus Guth’s production of Die Frau ohne Schatten featuring a cast led by Andreas Schager and Camilla Nylund. This follows his successful and long-awaited debut at Glyndebourne Festival 2024, conducting André Barbe & Renaud Doucet’s production of Die Zauberflöte with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Widely regarded as one of the most prominent Wagner conductors today, Trinks returns in 2024/25 to Leipzig Opera for Siegfried. He previously celebrated the Wagner Bicentenary conducting Der fliegende Holländer in Dresden, Tannhäuser in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Frankfurt, as well as Wagner's early opera Das Liebesverbot at Bayreuth Festival and Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg.
In demand also for his symphonic interpretations, throughout 2024/25 Trinks conducts the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (Zemlinsky The Mermaid in the opening concert of the 2025 Weiwuying International Music Festival), Munich Chamber Orchestra (Mozart 40), MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky 5) with whom he will also conduct a recording project of Wilhelm Petersen. As an extension of his operatic work, this season Trinks also conducts symphonic concerts with orchestras of Gothenburg Opera (Ravel Mother Goose, Strauss Till Eulenspiegel) and Teatro di San Carlo (Tchaikovsky 4).
Over recent seasons, Trinks and Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have performed a wide range of symphonic works such as Shostakovich 11, Beethoven 7, Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade in staged productions by John Neumeier. Trinks also conducted Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, National Orchestra of Belgium (at BOZAR Brussels and Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg), George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and Munich Philharmonic.
His extensive operatic experience includes many titles at Bayerische Staatsoper where, over the years, he has conducted Fidelio, Die Fledermaus, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Così fan tutte, to name only a handful. He also conducted their production of Arabella, starring Anja Harteros, which toured to the Münchner Opernfestspiele and Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Elsewhere, Trinks has appeared at Royal Opera House London (multiple revivals of Don Giovanni), Oper Köln (La bohème, Rusalka), Staatsoper Hannover (Tristan und Isolde, La Juive), Leipzig Oper (Lohengrin, La Traviata), Theater an der Wien (Fiery Angel, Euryanthe), Royal Swedish Opera (Die Walküre, Madama Butterfly), Norwegian Opera (La Traviata), Seattle Opera (The Turn of the Screw), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Die lustige Witwe), Teatro di San Carlo (Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni), Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Der fliegende Holländer), New National Theatre Tokyo (Le nozze di Figaro, Salome), Opernhaus Zürich (The Turn of the Screw), Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg (Salome), Opéra National de Paris (Die Zauberflöte).
Trinks’ award-winning discography includes the world premiere recording of Petersen 3 with Frankfurt Radio Symphony on Profil label, which received an Opus Klassik award for Symphonic Recording of the Year in 2023. His live recording of Rott 1 with Mozarteum Orchestra, also on Profil, received an ECHO Klassik award in 2017. Trinks has also conducted recording projects with Vienna Radio Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Born in Karlsruhe, Constantin Trinks studied conducting at the Conservatory of his hometown with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, and piano with Günter Reinhold. He joined the Saarländisches Staatstheater in 2002 as Kapellmeister, ascending within a few years into the position of interim Music Director (2006-2009). Between 2009-2012, Trinks was Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt where his productions included not only his first critically acclaimed Der Ring des Nibelungen, but also Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, Fidelio, Aida and the world premiere of Orff's Gisei (available on DVD) in combination with De temporum fine comoedia.
