
Teodor Currentzis
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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Acting History
2025
Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau as Self – Conductor
2023Lenechka as himself
2022Teodor Currentzis: Utopia as Self – Conductor
2022Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 as Self – Conductor
2021Mahler: Symphony No. 5 as Self – Conductor
2021What Beat You Nothing as Self
2021Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart as Self – Conductor
2021Mozart: Don Giovanni as Self – Conductor
2021Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 as Self – Conductor
2020Beethovens Neunte - Symphonie für die Welt as Self
2020Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele as Self
2020Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria as Conductor
2020DAU. Katya Tanya as Dau
2020DAU. String Theory as Dau
2020DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son as Dau
2020DAU. Three Days as Dau
2020DAU. Nora Mother as Dau
2019A Shroud of Incense as himself
2019Currentzis. Principle Of Passion as himself
2019Mozart: Idomeneo as Self – Conductor
2019Verdi: Messa da Requiem as Conductor
2018The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis as Self
2018DAU. Cinema as Dau
2016Currentzis – The Classical Rebel as Self
2015Conduction as Self
2015Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger as Self - Conductor
2015Mendelssohns Violinkonzert – Schönheit ist ein Verbrechen as Self
2014Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013) as Conductor
2014Kunscht! as Self
2012Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real as Self – Conductor
2012Purcell: The Indian Queen as Self – Conductor
1965aspekte as Self







