Teodor Currentzis

Lenechka (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. While he usually shuns publicity, ...

Teodor Currentzis: Utopia (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. 2 of 'Daphnis et Chloé', 'La Valse' and ...

Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (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). In his mature an ...

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2021)

For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problems that couldn't be resolved verbally. The ambitious structure of the five-part Fifth Symphony spans from the Funeral March to the roaring finale. It is a fo ...

What Beat You Nothing (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. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm ...

Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart (2021)

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No. 40 K. 550 and No. 41 K. 551 Jupiter. The two pinnacles of Mozart's symphonic heritage are interconnect ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2021)

Premiered in 1787, "Don Giovanni" exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial lover in his quest to conquer all women as he places his own pleasure above all other princip ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (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. ...

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

The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Even those who are not passionate about the classical music recognize the famous Ode to Joy. Despite the grim context in which it was created, the 9 ...

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

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

The project "Fragments" features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAeterna's home residence, Dom Radio in St Petersburg. With their signature perfectionism and dedication, Teodor Currentzis and the musicians have spent many h ...

DAU. Katya Tanya (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. But then the First Departm ...

DAU. String Theory (2020)

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scien ...

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

«The Return of the Prodigal Son» is the first volume from the film (novel) of Anatoli Vassiliev's «Empire» inside the Dau cycle. The story is about inner kinship, which is much closer than blood, about inevitable betrayal, about almost fatherly love an ...

DAU. Three Days (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. They haven't seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but fe ...

DAU. Nora Mother (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. Nora is visited by her mother for the first time since her wedding. Her m ...

DAU. Cinema (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. Combining elements of film, theatr ...

A Shroud of Incense (2019)

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts eve ...

Currentzis. Principle Of Passion (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? T ...

Mozart: Idomeneo (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. Joined by the exceptional voi ...

Verdi: Messa da Requiem (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. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by soloists and musicAetern ...

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

"The most important work doesn't take place on stage, but everywhere else," Teodor Currentzis is convinced. And that is precisely where this film portrait follows him. For eight months, German director Andreas Ammer accompanied the charismatic conductor. H ...

Currentzis – The Classical Rebel (2016)

For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills of the Ural mountains. But it is in this rapidly developing industrial city – which is establishing itself as one of Russia's modern cultural centers – t ...

Conduction (2015)

This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern conductors. Backed by pieces from Mozart, Stravinsky, Jean-Philippe Rameau and with choreography by Jiri Kylian, this film is 64 minutes of love, light, ...

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger (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. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the chance ...

Mendelssohns Violinkonzert – Schönheit ist ein Verbrechen (2015)

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

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

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real (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. Persephone is a three act mel ...

Purcell: The Indian Queen (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. Peters Sellars combines John Dryden and Robert Howard's libretto with a short-story written by the Nicaraguan writer ...

Britten: War Requiem (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 mou ...

Teodor Currentzis: Utopia (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. 2 of 'Daphnis et Chloé', 'La Valse' and ...

Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (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). In his mature an ...

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2021)

For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problems that couldn't be resolved verbally. The ambitious structure of the five-part Fifth Symphony spans from the Funeral March to the roaring finale. It is a fo ...

Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart (2021)

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No. 40 K. 550 and No. 41 K. 551 Jupiter. The two pinnacles of Mozart's symphonic heritage are interconnect ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2021)

Premiered in 1787, "Don Giovanni" exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial lover in his quest to conquer all women as he places his own pleasure above all other princip ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (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 (2020)

The project "Fragments" features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAeterna's home residence, Dom Radio in St Petersburg. With their signature perfectionism and dedication, Teodor Currentzis and the musicians have spent many h ...

Mozart: Idomeneo (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. Joined by the exceptional voi ...

Verdi: Messa da Requiem (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. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by soloists and musicAetern ...

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (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 brin ...

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

Verdi: La Traviata (2016)

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel "The Lady of the Camellias" by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages ...

Hypothetically Murdered (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 a ...

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger (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. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the chance ...

Alban Berg: Wozzeck (2012)

In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg's masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov's aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was "to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late twentiet ...

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real (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. Persephone is a three act mel ...

Purcell: The Indian Queen (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. Peters Sellars combines John Dryden and Robert Howard's libretto with a short-story written by the Nicaraguan writer ...

Verdi: Macbeth (2011)

Recorded at the Paris Opera and co-produced with Siberia's Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work. Google Earth satellite images plunge us into the heart of the action: ...

Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris (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. Google Earth satellite images plunge us into the heart of the action: a gloomy square surrounded by so ...