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Ivan
Anguélov
conductor
Ivan
Anguélov has been conducting internationally-known orchestras in opera houses
and important concert halls throughout Europe and the world for many years. His
special expertise is for Italian operas - Bel canto to Verismo.
Ivan Anguélov has conducted “Andrea Chenier” ( A. Agache and G. Merighi)and
“at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, “Rigoletto”, “Falstaff”, “La
Traviata”, “Aida” (with Hasmik Papian) and 2005 “ La Damnation de Faust”
at the Opera House Leipzig “Turandot” at the Komische Oper Berlin,
“Cavalleria Rusticana”I Pagliacci” and “Rigoletto” at the Stuttgart
State Opera, “Tosca” at the Cologne Opera , “Il barbiere di Siviglia”at
the Opera House Bonn, (with G. Taddei) ,“La Bohème” in Tokyo and at the Opéra
de Marseille, “l´Elisir d´amore” in Toulouse (with R. Alagna),
“Cavalleria Rusticana”I Pagliacci” in Catania, “Nabucco” (J. Pons) in
Spain, in Turkey and “Der Fliegende Holländer” in the Netherlands, as well
as at numerous International Festivals l just to name a few . He is a regular
guest at the Arena of Aspendos, at the Festival de Antibes, the Verdi Festival
in Prague, etc. In 2004 a festival production of Aida with Michele Crider
brought him a.o. to Berlin and Dusseldorf, to the Gerry-Weber- Stadium and the
Theatre in Oberammergau.
The conductor, who was born in Kavala, Greece started his musical studies at the
National Academy of Music in his native town, Sofia, and finished them in Moscow
and Munich (with Igor Markewitch, Carlos Klaiber and Wolfgang Sawallisch).
During this period he won prizes in a series of national and international
contests, of which the SPECIAL PRIZE, which included the PRINCE RAINIER III
SCHOLARSHIP, in MONTE CARLO is especially worth mentioning.
Ivan Anguélov became General Musical Director at the National Opera of Plovdiv,
moving on to the same position in Bienne and Lausanne in Switzerland, in the
Oper Bonn, and to the National Opera Bratislava, where he won the FURTWÄNGLER-PRIZE
1995 for particularly outstanding artistic achievements. Since 1986, he has been
a regular guest of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo and since 1995 he
regularly conducts concerts with the Munich Symphony Orchestra (broadcast on
television on the occasion of the Bavarian Television Award) including many
gala-concerts. He has also has conducted the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, the Orchestra della RTS Italiana (
at the Lucerne Festival), the Symphony Orchestras of Istanbul, Bilkent, Brabant,
Stockholm, Bern, the Radio Orchestras of Munich, Berlin, Bratislava, Sofia,
Brussels, and the Orchestras of Nice and Marseille. Moreover he has given
concerts with the Gürzenich Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Dortmund
and Halle, The Museum Orchestra of Frankfurt, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rehinische Philharmonie and
many, many others. Ivan Anguélov is in great demand as a conductor for
gala-evenings, often with television and radio broadcasting, and with renowned
soloists such as 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, Sergej Larin just to name a
few, in major international concert halls around the world.
Ivan
Anguélovs also has many recordings to his credit - for example, the only
complete recording of “Boulevard Solitutde” from Hans Werner Henze.”, a
complete version of Verdi´s “Il Trovatore” , numerous recordings of solo
singer albums, a selection of famous opera choruses and symphonic music. In
Junaury 2005 his total recording of all symphonies from Antonin Dvorak was
released. Future engagements include opera performances in Marseille (Tosca),
Toulon (Manon Lescaut), Sofia , at the International Chiemgau Festival
(Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci), in The Netherlands (The Player from
Prokofieff) and various SYMPHONY CONCERTS with the Radio Symphony Orchestras of
Sofia and Bratislava, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra and the Sofia Philharmonic
Orchestra.
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