Guest performances take – quoting from a press release “ Europe-wide successful expert in Italian repertoire “ – to such opera houses as the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Leipzig Opera House with the Gewandhausorchester, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Opera House in Bonn, to Tokyo, Santiago de Chile, Mexico, Vienna, Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Toulon, Catania , Verona, Helsinki, Copenhagen… He performs in Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands, …and everywhere his “ keen sense of music with Italianità” , his “truly ‘Italian’ Verdi-understanding” and his “sense of dynamic, accompaniment and independent sound language” are highly valued.

Anguélov performs at International Festivals and is much sought-after conductor for gala-concerts – with audio and TV broadcasting – with well-known soloists on the major concert stages in Europe and overseas.
The conductor, who was born in Kavala, Greece began his musical studies at the National Academy of Music in his hometown Sofia, and finished them in Moscow and Germany (with Igor Markewitch, Carlos Kleiber and Wolfgang Sawallisch). Of all the prizes he won in national and international contests the SPECIAL PRIZE with the PRINCE RAINIER III SCHOLARSHIP, in MONTE CARLO is especially worth mentioning. His various positions as Chief Conductor took Ivan Anguélov from the National Opera of Plovdiv, to Bienne and Lausanne in Switzerland, on to Bonn, and finally as GMD to the National Opera Bratislava, with whom he won the 1995 Furtwängler-Prize for particularly outstanding artistic achievements. He worked with directors such as Robert Carsen, Johannes Schaaf, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Richard Jones, Uwe Laufenberg, and many others. The artist conducts symphony concerts with the Tokyo-City- Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Moscow, Munich, Stockholm,… the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo, with which he recorded numerous CDs, the Orchestra della RTS Italiana (at the Lucerne Festival), the Radio Orchestras of Munich, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Sofia,… as well as with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rheinische Philharmonie just to name a few. Ivan Anguélov has a vast discography.
Apart from a series of recordings with symphonic music, under his musical direction the only complete recording of Hans Werner Henze’s “Boulevard Solitude” and a complete version of Verdi´s “Il Trovatore” were released, a CD with ‘Famous Opera Choruses’ and numerous singer recitals a.o. with John Treleaven, Torsten Kerl, Susan Anthony, Lado Ataneli, Hui He were released.

With Robert Dean Smith and Linda Watson he recorded in 2004 the CD ‘Scenes from Tristan und Isolde’. Already in 2002 his recording with Robert Dean Smith (Wagners Portrait) was rewarded in France with the ‘Orphée d’Or’ - Richard Wagner Prize for the best Wagner recording of the year. Since 2005 his total recording of all symphonies from Antonin Dvorak is on the market.

2007 the conductor Ivan Anguélov was awarded in Sofia with the Honor Prize THE GOLDEN FEATHER for his contribution to Bulgarian culture. 2014 he was honoured with the medal “Boris Christoff” in recognition of his career and his productions at the Ancient Theatre Plovdiv. Among those, we highlight the successful “FLYING DUTCHMAN” with Elisabet Strid, AIDA with Hui He or a concert with PAATA BURCHULADZE.

He has been the founder and promoter in 2016/2017 of the first Opera Studio in Bulgaria. He has conducted its first production, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. In 2017 he was appointed honorary conductor of the Philharmonie Pleven. Anguélov has recently released a new CD for Ohms Classics together with the Soprano Elisabet Strid, and is currently involved in another series of recordings.