Teodor Currentzis

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Teodor Currentzis is a Greek-Russian conductor and musician. He was Chief Conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra from 2018 to 2024 and is Artistic Director of the ensemble musicAeterna and the Utopia orchestra and choir. Outside of music, in 2009, Currentzis acted in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film Dau based on the biography of the physicist Lev Landau.

Most Popular Teodor Currentzis Trailers

Total trailers found: 40

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real Trailer (2012)

15 October 2012

Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-century Italian melodrama, the scenes have a recitative introduction followed by a single arioso, aria, duet or chorus.

Britten: War Requiem Trailer (2024)

07 June 2024

With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the British tenor Allan Clayton and the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a star cast has been found that ties in with the history of the work in a special way: Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem as a work of mourning and remembrance of the war dead and wanted the soloists to be members of the countries that had previously been enemies in the war.

Hypothetically Murdered Trailer (2015)

21 May 2015

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up.

DAU. Katya Tanya Trailer (2020)

15 May 2020

Katya, a young librarian, believes in love, but her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of disappointing affairs, Katya finally finds tenderness and understanding in the arms of her colleague, a journalist called Tanya.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Trailer (2021)

10 October 2021

For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problems that couldn’t be resolved verbally.

DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son Trailer (2020)

04 May 2020

«The Return of the Prodigal Son» is the first volume from the film (novel) of Anatoli Vassiliev’s «Empire» inside the Dau cycle.

Conduction Trailer (2015)

08 July 2015

This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern conductors.

Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele Trailer (2020)

30 July 2020

Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626 Trailer (2017)

23 July 2017

Mozart’s Requiem – his final and unfinished masterpiece – is an extraordinary work. Discover the piece at the Salzburg Festival in the hands of conductor Teodor Currentzis, the ensemble musicAeterna, Anna Prohaska (soprano), Katharina Magiera (contralto), Mauro Peter (tenor), and Tareq Nazmi (bass).

Mozart: Idomeneo Trailer (2019)

12 August 2019

Considered to be one of his most brilliant creations, Mozart’s Idomeneo is a perfect masterpiece for the two enfants terribles of classical music and opera staging, conductor Teodor Currentzis and stage director Peter Sellars.

DAU. Cinema Trailer (2020)

24 April 2020

An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral experiment – involving hundreds of participants from around the world.

Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris Trailer (2009)

01 April 2009

Coproduced with Siberia’s Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work.

Mendelssohns Violinkonzert – Schönheit ist ein Verbrechen Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Purcell: The Indian Queen Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

A superb adaptation of Purcell's the Indian Queen, staged and directed by Peter Sellars and performed in 2013 at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis Trailer (2018)

02 December 2018

“The most important work doesn’t take place on stage, but everywhere else,” Teodor Currentzis is convinced.

Verdi: Messa da Requiem Trailer (2019)

12 June 2019

Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author himself intended this composition to be performed in church, and on special occasions.

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito Trailer (2017)

04 August 2017

How do we live together in an age of conflict? How do you heal a divided and angry people? In their 2017 production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Peter Sellars and Teodor Currentzis examine these questions through the story of a warrior-emperor who brings peace to his divided land and pardons his own would-be assassins.

Currentzis – The Classical Rebel Trailer (2016)

11 September 2016

For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills of the Ural mountains.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Trailer (2021)

06 June 2021

In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, in conjunction with a new choreography by Sasha Waltz and her company.

Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria Trailer (2020)

27 June 2020

The project “Fragments” features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAeterna’s home residence, Dom Radio in St Petersburg.

DAU. Three Days Trailer (2020)

01 May 2020

It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow.

DAU. Nora Mother Trailer (2020)

24 April 2020

Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives together with her family within the confines of a secret and privileged Moscow institute.

Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Trailer (2022)

24 February 2022

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most well-known poem by Friedrich Schiller, written on the threshold of the French Revolution (1786).

DAU. String Theory Trailer (2020)

12 May 2020

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds.

Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau Trailer (2025)

20 January 2025

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the Académie royale and inspired by the mythological episode of the Gemini.

Alban Berg: Wozzeck Trailer (2012)

25 November 2012

In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

Junkies of Dreaming Trailer (2026)

15 October 2026

Orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis. The House of the Radio of the GDR in Berlin. A young couple in love.

Lenechka Trailer (2023)

20 October 2023

Leonid Desyatnikov is the most played Russian composer of today. Unparalleled, his music is performed all over the world from the Bolshoi Theatre and Paris’s Opéra Garnier to Milan’s La Scala and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

What Beat You Nothing Trailer (2021)

31 August 2021

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small.

Teodor Currentzis conducts Brahms and Mahler Trailer (2026)

17 March 2026

At Berlin’s Funkhaus, virtuoso pianist Alexandre Kantorow and star soprano Regula Mühlemann dazzle in this stunning program featuring Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013) Trailer (2014)

28 October 2014

Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013)

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known 20th-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presented the first staged production of Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger” in 2010.

Beethoven’s Ninth: Symphony for the World Trailer (2020)

30 November 2020

The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world.

Mozart: Don Giovanni Trailer (2021)

07 August 2021

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction.

A Shroud of Incense Trailer (2019)

15 December 2019

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia.

Verdi: La Traviata Trailer (2016)

17 June 2016

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas.

Teodor Currentzis: Utopia Trailer (2022)

21 October 2022

Utopia, the new orchestra of conductor Teodor Currentzis, can be experienced for the first time in Vienna on its inaugural tour with the 1945 version of Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ and Maurice Ravel’s Suite No.

Stravinsky's Perséphone Trailer (2012)

18 January 2012

Live Opera performance of Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. Directed by Peter Sellars

Currentzis. Principle Of Passion Trailer (2019)

06 October 2019

At the heart of this documentary lies the study of the Currentzis phenomenon. What is his creative method? What is the spirit of the music? How to express it most accurately to the audience and what is the freedom and responsibility of the modern artist? To answer these questions, the crew filmed the conductor for 10 years including the tour of his symphony orchestra MusicAeterna in Germany.

Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart Trailer (2021)

14 August 2021

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No.