Constantin Trinks

Constantin Trinks (born April 9, 1975 in Karlsruhe ) is a German conductor .

Life

Constantin Trinks studied piano with Günter Reinhold and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild at the Karlsruhe University of Music . During his studies, Trinks worked as a répétiteur and personal assistant to Kazushi Ōno at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , before he became a permanent solo repetiteur and conductor there in 2000. In 2002 he was a guest of Christian Thielemann in the new Tannhäuser production of the Bayreuth Festival . In the same year he moved to the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken as 2nd Kapellmeister , with which he remained connected until 2009, from 2006 to 2009 as acting general music director . From 2009 to 2012 he was general music director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , and since 2012 Trinks has been a freelance conductor. He regularly appears as a conductor at opera houses in Europe and around the world: Komische Oper Berlin , New National Theater Toyko, Semperoper Dresden , Opéra National de Paris , Bavarian State Opera Munich , Oper Frankfurt , Hamburg State Opera , Deutsche Oper Berlin , Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg.

repertoire

During his work in Karlsruhe and Darmstadt, Trinks acquired a broad opera and concert repertoire from the 18th to the 20th century. His conducting Luigi Nono's Intolleranza in Saarbrücken in 1960 received national attention, and in the following years he was able to establish himself as a proven Strauss and Wagner conductor. Particular milestones in this development were the conducting of The Flying Dutchman (Saarbrücken 2004), Das Rheingold (Saarbrücken 2006), Parsifal (Darmstadt 2008), Lohengrin (Saarbrücken 2008), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Darmstadt 2008), Salome (Saarbrücken 2009), Der Rosenkavalier (Dresden 2010, Munich 2011), The Ring of the Nibelung (Darmstadt 2011), Ariadne auf Naxos (Hamburg 2012), Tannhäuser (Berlin 2012). Trinks was able to consolidate his reputation as an outstanding conductor of the German repertoire, especially in the Wagner field. In July 2013 he conducted Wagner's youth work Das Liebesverbot in Bayreuth . In 2015 he made his debut at the Theater an der Wien with Heinrich Marschner's Hans Heiling .

Web links

• Constantin Trinks website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Opernwelt, November 2004.
2. ↑ Les concerts d'Altamusica. In: altamusica.com. Retrieved August 18, 2013 (French). 
3. ↑ Trinks was quoted as a “Blutswagnerian” in a review: Das Interregnum Trinks 2006-2009 ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Peter P. Pachl : Antagonism of bureaucratic order and exotic wildness: Richard Wagner's "Das Liebesverbot" in Bayreuth. In: nmz - new music newspaper. July 9, 2013, accessed August 18, 2013 .