Ivan Anguélov has been conducting internationally-known orchestras in opera houses and important concert halls throughout Europe and all the world for many years.
His special expertise is for Italian operas - Belcanto to Verismo. Ivan Anguélov has conducted ANDREA CHENIER (A. Agache and G. Merighi) and NABUCCO (2004 with Paata Burchuladze) 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 and in Marseille (2005), 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), MANON LESCAUT at the Opéra de Toulon, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/L’HEURE ESPAGNOL in Catania, NABUCCO (J. Pons) in Spain and DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER in the Netherlands, as well as at numerous International Festivals – for example in the Arena of Aspendos, at the Festival de Antibes, the Verdi Festival in Prague, the International Festival Chiemgau LA TRAVIATA in 2004, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/I PAGLIACCI in 2005 just to name a few . 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 of 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, among the others 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 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 Rheinische Philharmonie and 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 SOLITUDE by Hans Werner Henze, a complete version of Verdi´s IL TROVATORE , numerous recordings of solo singer albums (for his recording with Robert Dean Smith he became the ‘Orphée d’Or’ for the best Wagner recording in France), a selection of famous opera choruses and symphonic music. In January 2005 his total recording of all symphonies from Antonin Dvorak was released.