- He performed at Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, Opéra, Paris, Bolshoj, Moscow, and the opera house in Tokyo, among others.
- Goldberg was also recorded on CD (Philips) in the role of Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio with Jessye Norman, Kurt Moll, Ekkehard Wlaschiha and the Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Bernard Haitink.
- Reiner Goldberg performed with the world's best opera companies and orchestras under the direction of the most renowned conductors.
- Reiner Goldberg was a German operatic heroic tenor.
- In concert, he sang in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Lucerne and Edinburgh) under Claudio Abbado.
- Among his other successes were Tannhäuser at the Berlin State Opera and Bavarian State Opera Munich, Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Salzburg Easter Festival 1982 and 1983 conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
- He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (1991/92), the State Opera in Vienna (where he caused an enormous scandal when he lost his voice in the first act of a Tannhäuser premiere on 16 October 1982, and had to be replaced by Spas Wenkoff), Covent Garden, London, La Scala, Milan, and the state operas in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
- He sang the role of the first prisoner in Fidelio in a production in Graz in 2020 at age 80.
- In 1995, Goldberg received the Special Music Award for the title role of Aron in a live recording of Arnold Schönberg's Moses und Aron with the Tokyo Symphony under Kazuyoshi Akiyama at Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
- Reiner Goldberg made his debut in Bayreuth in 1986 and performed leading roles in Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. has also performed in Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Rienzi, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and Der fliegende Holländer in Bayreuth.
- He began his career at the Semperoper Dresden in 1973.
- He continued to sing with the State Opera in Berlin taking significant comprimario roles in Elektra and Salome up until 2015. Also in 2015, Daniel Barenboim had the idea of casting great Wagner singers of previous years as the various Masters in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" Goldberg sang Eisslinger and reprised the role in 2018.
- At the age of 61, he took on the role of the Kaiser in the Strauss Opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" with great success.
- His Deutsche Grammophon recording of the title role in Wagner's Siegfried, with Kathleen Battle, Hildegard Behrens, James Morris, Heinz Zednik and other singers of the Metropolitan Opera under James Levine won a Grammy Award in 1992.
- He has worked with stage directors such as Ruth Berghaus, Dieter Dorn, Christof Loy, Harry Kupfer, Peter Konwitschny, Peter Mussbach and has sung under such eminent conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Heinz Fricke, Bernard Haitink, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Georg Solti.
- The singer made his debut in 1966 with the touring Landesbühnen Sachsen (Tabarro).
- In 1981, the tenor became a member of the Berlin State Opera ensemble.
- In 1983 Goldberg was contracted to sing both Siegfried Roles in the new production of the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival conducted by Sir Georg Solti and produced by Sir Peter Hall. This turned into a personal disaster for him as he could not learn the roles in time to the satisfaction of Solti and Hall and was replaced shortly before the first performances.
- Goldberg studied at the conservatory of Dresden with Arno Schellenberg.
- In 1992, Reiner Goldberg gave his Carnegie Hall debut in the title role of Rienzi under the direction of Eve Queler.
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