Cast & creator
Claudio Abbado
Best known for Great Performances, Le Grand Échiquier, Kulturplatz
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.
97
film credits
6
television credits
89
1971–2026 · acting roles
8.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (103)
Showing 103 of 103 credits
Great Performances
Self
1971
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
imagine…
Self
2003ECHO-Verleihung
Self
1992Meisterwerke der Klassik
Self
2012
Macbeth
Self - Conductor
1979Macbeth
Conductor
1979
The Barber of Seville
Self - Conductor
1973
Conducting Mahler
Self - Conductor
2002
To Play and to Fight
Self - Interviewee
2007
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
2013From the House of the Dead
self
Boris Godunov
Conductor
1998
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
Self - Conductor
1993
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
Self
1988
Il viaggio a Reims
Conductor
1984
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence
Self
2003
Europakonzert 1991 from Prague
Conductor
1991
Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin
Conductor
2000
Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony
Self - Conductor
2009Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony
Conductor
2009
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
Self - Conductor
2008
Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos
Self - Conductor
1979
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Lucerne Festival
Self – Conductor
2008
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997
Self - Conductor
1997
Abbado in Berlin - The First Year
Self - Conductor
1991
Mahler: Symphonies 1-7
Self - Conductor
2011
Khovanshchina
Self - Conductor
1989Khovanshchina
Conductor
1989
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45
Self - Conductor
1997
José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992
Conductor
2006Please Call Me Claudio: The Visionary Claudio Abbado
Self
2024
Claudio Abbado in Rehearsal: Verdi: Missa Da Requiem
Self - Conductor
1985
Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
Self
2014
Mahler Symphony No.4 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Claudio Abbado
Self - Conductor
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
1996
Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo
Conductor
2002
Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg
Conductor
1996
Pollini Piano Concertos Beethoven Mozart and Brahms
Self - Conductor
2005
The Second Assignment
Music
2026
Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder
Self - Conductor
2010
Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen
Conductor
1994
A Russian Night
Self - Conductor
2009
Abbado in Lucerne 2003
Conductor
2003Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
Self - Conductor
2001
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7
Conductor
2002
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem
Self - conductor
2002
Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
Self - Conductor
2016
Mahler Symphony No. 5 – Lucerne Festival / Claudio Abbado
Self - Conductor
2004
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2000
Self - Conductor
2000
New Year's Concert 1991
Conductor
1991
Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
Conductor
2000
Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
Self - Conductor
1975
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 1, 6 & 8
Conductor
2002
Abbado - Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 9
Conductor
2002
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9
Self - Conductor
2001
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
Self - Conductor
2001
Abbado – Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 5
Conductor
2002
A Verdi Gala from Berlin
Self - Conductor
2002
Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Self - Conductor
2013
Claudio Abbado, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela, Anna Prohaska – Lucerne Festival At Easter
Self - Conductor
2011
Lucerne Festival: Mahler - Symphony No. 3
Self - Conductor
2008
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Self - Conductor
2007
Berlin Philharmonic in Japan 1994
Self - Conductor
2002
Berlin Philharmonic European Concert 1998 Stockholm
Self - Conductor
1999
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 8
Self - Conductor
2001
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1996
Self - Conductor
1996
Beethoven: The Symphonies
Self - Conductor
2013
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
Self - Conductor
1998
Europakonzert 1998 from Stockholm
Conductor
1998
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
Self - Conductor
2001Founding Concert of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor
2003
In Search of Beethoven
Self
2009
The Matchstick Men
Self
1996
Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven - Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
Conductor
2014
La Cenerentola
Self - Conductor
1981
Mikail Pletnev – A Genius Between Times
Self - Conductor
2025
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Self - Conductor
2005
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1999
Self - Conductor
1999
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker
Self - Conductor
2002
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
Self - Conductor
2009
Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
dirigent
2009
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
Self - Conductor
2010
Elektra
Self - Conductor
1989
Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert
Self - Conductor
2015
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
Self - Conductor
2001
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Self - Conductor
1978
Lohengrin
Conductor
1990
Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
2005Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005
Music Director
2005
Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at Lucerne Festival 2004
Conductor
2022
Verdi: Requiem
Self - Conductor
1982Verdi: Requiem
Conductor
1982
European Concert 1994
Self - Conductor
1994
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)
Self . Conductor
2011
Wozzeck
Self - Conductor
1987
Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7
Self - Conductor
2006
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Self - Conductor
2002
Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Self -Conductor
2006
Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5
dirigent
2011
Abbado Conducts Mahler Symphonies 1-7
2011
Brahms Dvorák - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 9 From the New World
Self - Conductor
2011