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: Acting

Birthday: 1933-06-26

Place of Birth: Milano, Italy

Also Known As:

Claudio Abbado

Popular Movies

The Matchstick Men (1970)

Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado (1970)

Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem (2002)

European Concert 1994 (1994)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008)

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy (1993)

Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (2011)

Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 (2009)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado (2013)

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (1997)

Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra (2013)

A Verdi Gala from Berlin (2002)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 (2001)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 (2001)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9 (2001)

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8 (2001)

Verdi: Requiem (1982)

Europakonzert 1991 from Prague (1991)

Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen (1994)

Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo (2002)

Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin (2000)

Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm (1998)

Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg (1996)

La Cenerentola (1981)

Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert (2016)

Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival) (2011)

Wozzeck (1987)

Khovanshchina (1989)

Elektra (1989)

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996)

In Search of Beethoven (2009)

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera (1975)

Conducting Mahler (2002)

A Russian Night (2009)

Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado (2004)

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 (2010)

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival (2008)

Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony (2009)

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2007)

Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder (2010)

Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2006)

Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994 (2002)

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1978)

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2002)

Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos (1979)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1973)

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande (2009)

The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)

Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7 (2006)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2001)

Beethoven: The Symphonies (2013)

Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (2008)

Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître (2014)

Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm (1999)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2001)

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2002)

Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem (1985)

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2005)

Mahler: Symphonies 1-7 (2011)

Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert (2015)

Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms (2005)

Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World (2011)

To Play and to Fight (2007)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000 (2000)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996 (1996)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997 (1997)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998 (1998)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999 (1999)