Correspondances en 10 raisons Urals soundscape: 10 highlights Maverick conductor Teodor Currentzis has been Artistic Director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2011. Born in Greece, he came to study in Saint Petersburg and then moved to Novosibirsk, where he founded the musicAeterna ensemble and choir, before settling near the Ural Mountains. In Perm, on the edge of Siberia, he leads us through a poetic and musical Russia.