Claudio Abbado
Biography
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Mikail Pletnev – A Genius Between Times as Self - Conductor
2022Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at Lucerne Festival 2004 as Conductor
2016Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert as Self - Conductor
2015Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert as Self - Conductor
2014Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert as Conductor
2014Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître as Self
2013Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra as Self - Conductor
2013Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
2013Beethoven: The Symphonies as Self - Conductor
2012Meisterwerke der Klassik as Self
2011Mahler: Symphonies 1-7 as Self - Conductor
2011Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World as Self - Conductor
2011Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival) as Self . Conductor
2011Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter as Self - Conductor
2011Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 as dirigent
2010Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder as Self - Conductor
2010Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 as Self - Conductor
2009Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony as Self - Conductor
2009A Russian Night as Self - Conductor
2009Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande as Self - Conductor
2009In Search of Beethoven as Self
2009Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 as dirigent
2008Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival as Self – Conductor
2008Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3 as Self - Conductor
2008Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 as Self - Conductor
2007Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 as Self - Conductor
2007To Play and to Fight as Self - Interviewee
2006José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992 as Conductor
2006Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7 as Self - Conductor
2006Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 as Self -Conductor
2005Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms as Self - Conductor
2005Mahler: Symphony No. 9 as Self - Conductor
2005Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
2004Kulturplatz as Self
2004Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado as Self - Conductor
2003Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence as Self
2003Abbado in Lucerne 2003 as Conductor
2003imagine… as Self
2002Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker as Self - Conductor
2002Conducting Mahler as Self - Conductor
2002Verdi: Simon Boccanegra as Self - Conductor
2002A Verdi Gala from Berlin as Self - Conductor
2002Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo as Conductor
2002Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994 as Self - Conductor
2002Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem as Self - conductor
2001Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 as Self - Conductor
2001Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker as Self - Conductor
2001Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8 as Self - Conductor
2001Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker as Self - Conductor
2001Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9 as Self - Conductor
2001Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 as Self - Conductor
2000The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000 as Self - Conductor
2000Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin as Conductor
1999The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999 as Self - Conductor
1999Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm as Self - Conductor
1998The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998 as Self - Conductor
1998Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm as Conductor
1997The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997 as Self - Conductor
1997Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 as Self - Conductor
1996The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996 as Self - Conductor
1996The Matchstick Men as Self
1996Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg as Conductor
1996Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music as Self
1994Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen as Conductor
1994European Concert 1994 as Self - Conductor
1993Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy as Self - Conductor
1992ECHO-Verleihung as Self
1991Europakonzert 1991 from Prague as Conductor
1991New Year's Concert 1991 as Conductor
1990Abbado in Berlin – The First Year as Self - Conductor
1990Lohengrin as Conductor
1989Khovanshchina as Self - Conductor
1989Elektra as Self - Conductor
1988The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky as Self
1987Wozzeck as Self - Conductor
1985Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem as Self - Conductor
1982Verdi: Requiem as Self - Conductor
1981La Cenerentola as Self - Conductor
1979Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos as Self - Conductor
1978Verdi: Simon Boccanegra as Self - Conductor
1975Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera as Self - Conductor
1973Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Self - Conductor
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1971Great Performances as Self
—Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado as Self - Conductor