In 1979, Brinkmann was invited by the Wiener Konzerthaus to venture into the music world by performing the William Walton/Edith Sitwell collaboration, Façade, under the direction of Friedrich Cerha. Soon afterwards she was dialogue director for the English-language version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar for two seasons at the Theater an der Wien, and in 1981 she made her German-language stage debut as Countess Almaviva in Ödön von Horvath's Figaro läßt sich scheiden at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
