Claudio Abbado
Acting
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.
As actor 88
Great Performances
1971
Kulturplatz
2004
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
imagine…
2003
ECHO-Verleihung
1992
Conducting Mahler
2002
Macbeth
1979
Khovanshchina
1989
To Play and to Fight
2007
Meisterwerke der Klassik
2012
Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony
2009
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996
1996
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
Europakonzert 1991 from Prague
1991
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
2008
From the House of the Dead
Please Call Me Claudio: The Visionary Claudio Abbado
2024
The Barber of Seville
1973
Beethoven: The Symphonies
2013
Abbado in Berlin - The First Year
1991
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000
2000
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival
2008
La Cenerentola
1981
Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
2014
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
2009
The Matchstick Men
1996
Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos
1979
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
2005
Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9
2001
Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
2016
Mahler: Symphonies 1-7
2011
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence
2003
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8
2001
Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
2014
Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado
2004
Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder
2010
Abbado in Lucerne 2003
2003
Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm
1999
Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at Lucerne Festival 2004
2022
Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3
2008
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
2001
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
2013
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
1993
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem
2002
Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter
2011
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6
2007
José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992
2006
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
2001
New Year's Concert 1991
1991
A Russian Night
2009
Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms
2005
Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen
1994
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45
1997
Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin
2000
Lohengrin
1990
Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994
2002
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
2001
Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem
1985
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
1998
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999
1999
Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo
2002
Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
1975
In Search of Beethoven
2009
Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm
1998
European Concert 1994
1994
Wozzeck
1987
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
1978
Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5
2011
Elektra
1989
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997
1997
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
2010
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
2002
Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert
2015
Verdi: Requiem
1982
Mikail Pletnev – A Genius Between Times
2025
Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
2009
A Verdi Gala from Berlin
2002
Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg
1996
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)
2011
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
2001
Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2013
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7
2006
Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
2005
Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7
2006
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
2002
Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World
2011
On the crew 14
Macbeth
1979
Khovanshchina
1989
Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony
2009
The Second Assignment
2026
Boris Godunov
1998
Il viaggio a Reims
1984
Founding Concert of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2003
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 9
2002
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 1, 6 & 8
2002
Abbado – Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 5
2002
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7
2002
Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
2000
Verdi: Requiem
1982
Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
2005