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.

Known For

Great Performances

Self

Le Grand Échiquier

Self

imagine…

Self

Kulturplatz

Self

The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky

Self

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy

Self - Conductor

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2016	Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert	Self - Conductor
2015	Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert	Self - Conductor
2014	Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître	Self
2014	Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert	Conductor
2013	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
2013	Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra	Self - Conductor
2013	Beethoven: The Symphonies	Self - Conductor
2011	Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5	dirigent
2011	Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)	Self . Conductor
2011	Mahler: Symphonies 1-7	Self - Conductor
2011	Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World	Self - Conductor
2011	Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter	Self - Conductor
2010	Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3	Self - Conductor
2010	Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder	Self - Conductor
2009	Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3	dirigent
2009	In Search of Beethoven	Self
2009	A Russian Night	Self - Conductor
2009	Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony	Self - Conductor
2009	Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande	Self - Conductor
2008	Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6	Self - Conductor
2008	Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival	Self – Conductor
2008	Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3	Self - Conductor
2007	Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6	Self - Conductor
2007	To Play and to Fight	Self - Interviewee
2006	Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7	Self -Conductor
2006	Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7	Self - Conductor
2005	Mahler: Symphony No. 9	Self - Conductor
2005	Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms	Self - Conductor
2005	Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
2004	Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado	Self - Conductor
2002	Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem	Self - conductor
2002	A Verdi Gala from Berlin	Self - Conductor
2002	Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo	Conductor
2002	Conducting Mahler	Self - Conductor
2002	Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994	Self - Conductor
2002	Verdi: Simon Boccanegra	Self - Conductor
2002	Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker	Self - Conductor
2001	Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker	Self - Conductor
2000	Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin	Conductor
2000	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000	Self - Conductor
1999	Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm	Self - Conductor
1999	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999	Self - Conductor
1998	Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm	Conductor
1998	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998	Self - Conductor
1997	Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45	Self - Conductor
1997	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997	Self - Conductor
1996	The Matchstick Men	Self
1996	Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg	Conductor
1996	Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music	Self
1996	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996	Self - Conductor
1994	European Concert 1994	Self - Conductor
1994	Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen	Conductor
1993	Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy	Self - Conductor
1991	Europakonzert 1991 from Prague	Conductor
1989	Khovanshchina	Self - Conductor
1989	Elektra	Self - Conductor
1988	The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky	Self
1987	Wozzeck	Self - Conductor
1985	Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem	Self - Conductor
1982	Verdi: Requiem	Self - Conductor
1981	La Cenerentola	Self - Conductor
1979	Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos	Self - Conductor
1978	Verdi: Simon Boccanegra	Self - Conductor
1975	Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera	Self - Conductor
1973	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Self - Conductor
	Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado	Self - Conductor

Year	TV Show	Role
2012	Meisterwerke der Klassik	Self
2004	Kulturplatz	Self
2003	imagine…	Self
1992	ECHO-Verleihung	Self
1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self
1971	Great Performances	Self