
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.
Sound 22
2020s
- 2026
Carmen: Salzburger Festspiele 2026
Music Director
Teodor Currentzis conducts Brahms and Mahler
Conductor
- 2025
Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Music Director
- 2024
Britten: War Requiem
Orchestrator
- 2022
Teodor Currentzis: Utopia
Conductor
Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Conductor, Music Director
- 2021
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Conductor
Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart
Conductor, Music Director
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Conductor, Music Director
- 2020
Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria
Conductor
2010s
- 2019
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Conductor, Music Director
- 2017
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Conductor
Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Conductor
- 2016
Verdi: La Traviata
Conductor, Music Director
- 2015
Hypothetically Murdered
Conductor
Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger
Conductor
- 2012
Alban Berg: Wozzeck
Conductor
Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real
Music Director, Conductor
Purcell: The Indian Queen
Conductor, Music Director
2000s
- 2009
Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris
Conductor
Acted in 10
2020s
- 2026
DAU
Dau
- 2020
DAU. Nora Mother
Dau
Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria
Conductor
DAU. String Theory
Dau
DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son
Dau
DAU. Three Days
Dau
DAU. Cinema
Dau
2010s
- 2019
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Conductor
- 2014
Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013)
Conductor
Appearances21
2020s
- 2026
Junkies of Dreaming
Self
Teodor Currentzis conducts Brahms and Mahler
Self – Conductor
- 2025
Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Self – Conductor
- 2023
Lenechka
himself
- 2022
Teodor Currentzis: Utopia
Self – Conductor
Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Self – Conductor
- 2021
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Self – Conductor
What Beat You Nothing
Self
Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart
Self – Conductor
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Self – Conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Self – Conductor
- 2020
Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Self
2010s
- 2019
A Shroud of Incense
himself
- 2018
The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Self
- 2016
Currentzis – The Classical Rebel
Self
- 2015
Conduction
Self
Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger
Self - Conductor
- 2012
Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real
Self – Conductor
Purcell: The Indian Queen
Self – Conductor