In the same year, he moved to the Saarbrücken Theatre as 2nd Kapellmeister, with which he remained associated until 2009, from 2006 to 2009 as acting General Music Director.
[1][2][3] During his tenure in Karlsruhe and Darmstadt, Trinks acquired a broad opera and concert repertoire from the 18th to the 20th century.
His conducting of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Saarbrücken[4] in the following years enable him to establish himself as a proven Strauss and Wagner conductor.
Particularly in the Wagner field, Trinks was able to consolidate his reputation as an outstanding conductor of the German repertoire.
[6] In July 2013 he conducted Wagner's Jugendwerk Das Liebesverbot in Bayreuth [7] He made his debut at the Theater an der Wien in 2015 with Heinrich Marschner's Hans Heiling.