Teodor Currentzis, Utopia Orchestra: “The Ring Without Words” at Philharmonie Berlin

About the Event

Symphonic excerpts from Wagner's operas “Das Rheingold,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried,” and “Götterdämmerung”

Currentzis demonstrates his creative talent not only as the founder of his music label “Theta,” but is also celebrated above all for his radical visions. The uncompromising, spiritual approach is just as important to the Greek, who has been dubbed a rebel of the classical music scene, as his energetic body language. It is a search for a higher musical cosmos that he seeks to illuminate. So it comes as no surprise that three years ago Currentzis created his own international, high‐caliber, independent music collective called “Utopia.” The name was deliberately chosen to be future‐oriented, with the goal of searching for sonic perfection. After his last concert in Munich in April 2025, the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “Teodor Currentzis is an experience.”

In the fall, Wagner's opera tetralogy – “Das Rheingold,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried,” and ‘Götterdämmerung’ – will undergo its metamorphosis into a symphonic “Ring without Words” under the baton of the unconventional star conductor, without losing any of its sonic foundation.