ARTIST

ARTIST

Constantin Trinks(Conductor)

Born in Karlsruhe, Constantin Trinks is widely acclaimed as one of today's most committed and expert Wagner conductors and particularly noted for his deep affinity for the Austro-Germanic repertoire from the Classical tradition through to the twentieth century post-Romantic period.

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Trinks has conducted at many of Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals, including the Royal Opera House, London; Bayerische Staatsoper; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Oper Leipzig; Staatsoper Hannover; Theater an der Wien; Royal Swedish Opera; Norwegian Opera; Seattle Opera; Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Teatro di San Carlo; Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden; New National Theatre Tokyo; Opernhaus Zürich; Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg; Opéra National de Paris; and Glyndebourne Festival. His repertoire spans more than 30 operas, including Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Salome, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte. Also in demand for his symphonic interpretations, he has conducted the Munich Chamber Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra and Teatro di San Carlo.
Recent highlights include a debut at Staatsoper Berlin conducting Claus Guth’s production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, returns to Leipzig Opera for Siegfried, Deutsche Oper for Lohengrin and Sofia Opera for Tannhäuser and Der Ring des Nibelungen, and a successful and long-awaited Glyndebourne debut in 2024, conducting André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of Die Zauberflöte with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
In the 2025–26 season, Constantin Trinks made his debut at Teatro Carlo Felice Genova with Don Giovanni and at the Hungarian State Opera with Parsifal, alongside returns to the Vancouver Symphony and George Enescu Philharmonic orchestras. He led a new production of Imperial Ball at both the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Theater an der Wien’s Johann Strauss Festival, and a new production of Lortzing’s Regina at Oper Leipzig. In January 2026, he returned to Bayerische Staatsoper to conduct Don Giovanni, continuing his close relationship with the theatre, where he has previously led Fidelio, Die Fledermaus, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. He also conducted their production of Arabella, starring Anja Harteros, which toured to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
In the 2026–27 season, Trinks returns to the Wiener Staatsoper to conduct Die Entführung aus dem Serail in October, followed by Arabella in May and June 2027. He conducts a new production of Strauss’ Salome, directed by Calixto Bieito, at the Opéra de Lyon, alongside symphonic engagements with the Essen Philharmonic and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
Trinks’ award-winning discography includes the world-premiere recording of Petersen’s
Symphony No. 3 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony on the Hänssler Profil label, which received an OPUS Klassik Award for Symphonic Recording of the Year in 2023. His live recording of Rott’s Symphony No. 1 with the Mozarteum Orchestra, also on Hänssler Profil, received an ECHO Klassik Award in 2017. He has also recorded repertoire including the piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Pfitzner and Braunfels, Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 32 and 29, Weber’s Euryanthe and Weinberger’s Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer.Constantin Trinks studied conducting at the Conservatory of his hometown with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Kazushi Ono, and piano with Günter Reinhold. He joined the Saarländisches Staatstheater in 2002 as Kapellmeister, becoming interim Music Director from 2006–2009. From 2009–2012, he was Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, where his productions included his first critically acclaimed Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, Fidelio, Aida and the world premiere of Orff’s Gisei, presented in combination with De temporum fine comoedia.

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