Мaestro Ivan Anguelov in Plovdiv for "Aida"

Ivan Anguélov, one of the finest conductors in Europe, has worked in important opera houses in Germany, including Bayerische Staatsoper München, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Oper Leipzig, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Stuttgart, Oper Köln and Oper Bonn, as well as in Tokyo, Santiago di Chile, Mexico, Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Toulon, Catania, Verona and Helsinki. He also performed in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands and has appeared in numerous International Festivals, including the Arena of Aspendos, the Antibes Festival, the Verdi Festival in Prague, the Bartok Festival in Hungary, theInternational Festival in Chiemgau, and the Wagner Festival at the Neuschwanstein castle.

A much sought-after conductor on the symphonic circuit, orchestras with whom he has featured have included the Gewandhausorchester, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Moscow, Munich and Stockholm, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, the Philharmonic Orchestra Monte Carlo, the Orchestra della RTS Italiana (at the Lucerne Festival), the Radio Orchestras of Munich, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Sofia, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rheinische Philharmonie.

Ivan worked with directors such as Robert Carsen, Johannes Schaaf, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Richard Jones and many others. His gala opera performances have included highly-acclaimed appearances with Dame Gwyneth Jones, Grace Bumbry, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Aliberti, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Dame Margaret Price, Denyce Graves, Neil Shicoff, Eva Marton, Paata Burchuladze, Piero Cappuccilli and Sergej Larin.

His vast discography includes Hans Werner Henze’s Boulevard Solitude, Il Trovatore (Arte Nova) and all Antonin Dvorak’s symphonies. In 2002 his recording Wagners Portrait (with Robert Dean Smith) won the Orphée d’Or Richard Wagner Prize for the best Wagner recording of the year. In 2007 he was awarded The Golden Feather for his contribution to Bulgarian culture.

Ivan Anguelov conducted AIDA with opera star Hui He at OPERA OPEN 2014