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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Great Performances (1971) — Self
2. imagine… (2003) — Self
3. La Cenerentola (1981) — Self - Conductor
4. In Search of Beethoven (2009) — Self
5. The Barber of Seville (1973) — Self - Conductor
6. Lohengrin (1990) — Conductor
7. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
8. Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy (1993) — Self - Conductor
9. Khovanshchina (1989) — Self - Conductor
10. Conducting Mahler (2002) — Self - Conductor
11. The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky (1988) — Self
12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado (2013)
13. Wozzeck (1987) — Self - Conductor
14. Elektra (1989) — Self - Conductor
15. Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996) — Self
16. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival (2008) — Self – Conductor
17. Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony (2009) — Self - Conductor
18. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande (2009) — Self - Conductor
19. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2002) — Self - Conductor
20. To Play and to Fight (2007) — Self - Interviewee
21. Kulturplatz (2004) — Self
22. The Matchstick Men (1996) — Self
23. Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado — Self - Conductor
24. Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem (2002) — Self - conductor
25. European Concert 1994 (1994) — Self - Conductor
26. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008) — Self - Conductor
27. Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (2011) — dirigent
28. Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 (2009) — dirigent
29. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (1997) — Self - Conductor
30. Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra (2013) — Self - Conductor
31. A Verdi Gala from Berlin (2002) — Self - Conductor
32. Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 (2001) — Self - Conductor
33. Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 (2001) — Self - Conductor
34. Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9 (2001) — Self - Conductor
35. Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8 (2001) — Self - Conductor
36. Verdi: Requiem (1982) — Self - Conductor
37. Europakonzert 1991 from Prague (1991) — Conductor
38. Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen (1994) — Conductor
39. Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo (2002) — Conductor
40. Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin (2000) — Conductor