IVAN ANGUÉLOV is one of the few Bulgarian conductors with an international career.
Guest engagements bring the – quoting the press “ Maestro known throughout Europe as successful expert for the Italian repertoire” to opera houses such as

• Bayerische Staatsoper München
• Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Semperoper Dresden
• Staatsoper Hamburg
• Oper Leipzig mit dem Gewandhausorchester
• Staatsoper Stuttgart
• Oper der Stadt Köln
• Oper Bonn

Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Finnish National Opera, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, Opéra Marseille, Teatro Massiomo Bellini Catania, Salle Pleyel Paris, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra de Toulon, Opera Santiago de Chile, Ópera de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Istanbul State Opera , Vienna Popular Opera, Teatro Filarmonico Verona just to name a few. , …and everywhere his “ keen sense of music with Italianità” , his “truly ‘Italian’ perception of Verdi ” and his “feel for dynamics and modesty , accompaniment and independent sound language” are highly valued.

IVAN ANGUÉLOV performs at international festivals and is a much sought-after conductor for gala evenings – with broadcast on radio and television – with renowned soloists on the major concert stages in Europe and overseas.


POSITIONS AS PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR

• Nationaloper Plovdiv
• Oper Biel/ Bienne
• Opéra de Lausanne
• Oper Bonn
and chief musical director of the Bratislava National Opera.


He plays SYMPHONY CONCERTS with the

• Tokyo-City-Philharmonic-Orchestra
• Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Genf
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
• Orchestra della RTS Italiana (beim Luzerner Festival)
• SYMPOHNY ORCHESTRA
    Moskau, München, Stockholm
• RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    München, Berlin, Bratislava, Brüssel, Kopenhagen, Stockholm, Sofia

but also with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rheinish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra and many others.


COLLABORATION with famous soloists

• Hui He, Edita Gruberova, Margret Price, Grace Bumbry, Neil Shicoff, Paata Burchuladze, Piero Cappuccilli, Gösta Winbergh, Giuseppe Taddei, Robert Dean Smith, Ramon Vargas
• Mischa Maisky, Arcadi Volodos, Pierre Amoyal, Maurice André, Boris Pergamenschtschikov, Vadim Mamikonian, Julia Fischer


IVAN ANGUÉLOV also has a vast DISCOGRAPHY. → DISCOGRAPHY of IVAN ANGUÉLOV.
He recorded OPERAS and SYMPHONIC MUSIC with renowned orchestras for various labels:

• Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
• Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin
• Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
• Nürnberger Symphoniker
• Bulgarisches Radio Sinfonie Orchester Sofia
• Sinfonie Orchester Sofia
• Sinfonietta Basel
• Orchestre Symphonique de l‘Opéra de Lausanne
• Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava


PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

• Furtwängler-Preis 1995
    with the Bratislava National Opera for particularly high artistic achievements
• Orphée d’ or – Richard Wagner Prize of the Opera Bastille Paris
   or the best Wagner recording oft he year
• Medal of Honor 150 years Santiago de Chile opera
• The Golden Feather
   Prize of Honor for his Contribution to the Bulgarian Culture in Sofia
• Medal of Honor ‚Boris Christoff‘
   on the occasion of his performances at the
   International Opera Festival in the Plovdiv Antique Theatre
• Since 2017 Conductor of Honor at the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra



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