Conductor

Teodor Currentzis | George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children | SWR Symphonieorchester

Teodor Currentzis is a charismatic, eccentric, and downright notorious for his interpretations, which reveal entirely new facets of music in terms of tempo and dynamics. Now the audience favorite returns to the Elbphilharmonie with his top-class international orchestra. They bring with them the "Ring Without Words," a kind of best-of of the most beautiful passages from Wagner's opera tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung" – entirely without singing.

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Utopia / Teodor Currentzis

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Jean-Philippe Rameau was already 50 years old when he wrote his first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie, in 1733. Although Jean-Baptiste Lully—whose name at the time stood for French opera par excellence—had already died in 1687, the premiere sparked a bitter dispute between the conservative "Lullists" and the admirers of Rameau's daring, modern style. While some found his harmony too dissonant and his break with tradition scandalous, others were enthusiastic about the innovations that emerged from Rameau's long-standing preoccupation with questions of music theory and aesthetics. Les Indes galantes of 1735 was followed two years later by the tragédie en musique Castor et Pollux—Ramaeau's third completed opera. The premiere at the Paris Académie Royale de Musique was eagerly awaited, if only because of its subject matter; the mythical story of the two Dioscuri was a novelty on the musical theater stage at the time. Rameau himself probably suggested the material to the writer Pierre-Joseph Bernard, who wrote his first libretto, Castor et Pollux: The brothers, the mortal Castor and the immortal Pollux, are both in love with Télaïre, who herself prefers Castor. However, before the opera's action even begins, Castor is murdered. Pollux receives permission from his father Jupiter to free his brother from the underworld in order to reunite him with Télaïre, but he would have to pay for this with his own immortality. For Pollux, an inner struggle now begins between his brotherly loyalty to Castor and his desire for Télaïre. In Castor et Pollux, Rameau combined all the compositional elements for which he was equally famous and infamous, impressively conveying the respective dramatic situation musically in the sometimes highly virtuosic vocal lines as well as in the rich harmony and the differentiated timbres.

Castor and Pollux

Felsenreitschule

Utopia · Currentzis

Great Festival House

The programme comprises Alban Berg: Violin Concerto, To the Memory of an Angel; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major, The Titan

Utopia Orchestra

Gasteig HP8

Utopia Orchestra: Teodor Currentzis

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

Alban Berg dedicated his violin concerto to "the memory of an angel", namely Alma Mahler's daughter Manon. Together with Teodor Currentzis and the Utopia Orchestra, the exceptional violinist Vilde Frang will bring this angelic song to life. Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is entirely earthly: from sounds of nature to parodic funeral marches to the "titanic" triumph of the nameless hero.

Teodor Currentzis – of angels and titans

Tonhalle Zürich

Victoria Hall in Geneva

Alban Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto "to the memory of an angel," namely Alma Mahler's daughter Manon. Together with Teodor Currentzis and the Utopia Orchestra, the exceptional violinist Vilde Frang will bring this angelic song to life. Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is entirely earthly: from natural sounds to parodistic funeral marches to the "titanic" triumph of the nameless hero.

Utopia Orchestra | Currentzis, Frang

Casino Bern

Once again, Teodor Currentzis and his Utopia Orchestra stop at Santa Cecilia for an unmissable concert. It begins with a masterpiece of heartbreaking beauty, Berg  's Violin Concerto , written for the young Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma Mahler, who died at just 18, and therefore dedicated "to the memory of an angel." The second part features Mahler  's Symphony No. 1, "The Titan ," a tale of a hero's coming of age, amidst nature's awakenings, grotesque funeral marches, and a finale that is a cry of triumph.

Conductor

Teodor Currentzis

Events

Upcoming events

May 11, 2026

Utopia Orchestra · Isarphilharmonie

May 27, 2026

Utopia Orchestra: Teodor Currentzis · Liederhalle

May 29, 2026

Teodor Currentzis – of angels and titans · Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

May 31, 2026

Utopia Orchestra · Victoria Hall

Jun 1, 2026

Utopia Orchestra | Currentzis, Frang · Casino Bern

Past events

Nov 12, 2025

Utopia / Teodor Currentzis · Elbphilharmonie

27 - 29 Aug, 2025

Castor and Pollux · Salzburger Festspiele

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Mahler

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor in Violin Concerto by Berg

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor in 4 Lieder by Strauss

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor in Symphony No. 1 by Mahler

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Conductor in 2 Poèmes by Scriabin

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor in Castor et Pollux by Rameau

Salzburger Festspiele

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