Teodor Currentzis
Birthday: 1972-02-24
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Biography: 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.
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What Beat You Nothing
Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the ...
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Currentzis. Principle Of Passion
At the heart of this documentary lies the study of the Currentzis phenomenon. What is his creative m...
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The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis
“The most important work doesn’t take place on stage, but everywhere else,” Teodor Currentzis is con...
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Currentzis – The Classical Rebel
For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills o...
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Conduction
This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern...
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DAU. Cinema
An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale p...
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Lenechka
Leonid Desyatnikov is the most played Russian composer of today. Unparalleled, his music is performe...
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author him...
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...
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Mozart: Idomeneo
Considered to be one of his most brilliant creations, Mozart’s Idomeneo is a perfect masterpiece for...
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Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger
Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known 20th-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presen...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAe...
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Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real
Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a ninet...
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Purcell: The Indian Queen
A superb adaptation of Purcell's the Indian Queen, staged and directed by Peter Sellars and performe...
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Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he ...
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Teodor Currentzis: Utopia
Utopia, the new orchestra of conductor Teodor Currentzis, can be experienced for the first time in V...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5
For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problem...
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Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart
At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed t...
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A Shroud of Incense
Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city...
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DAU. Nora Mother
Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives togethe...
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DAU. Three Days
It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria,...
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DAU. Katya Tanya
Katya, a young librarian, believes in love, but her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of...
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DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son
«The Return of the Prodigal Son» is the first volume from the film (novel) of Anatoli Vassiliev’s «E...
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DAU. String Theory
Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible wor...
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Beethovens Neunte - Symphonie für die Welt
The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the...
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Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria
The project “Fragments” features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAe...
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Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013)...
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Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...
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