Don Carlo
International Chiemgau Festival
Event and sounds, Singing and voices Actually it were the sounds that made this a great evening, they made the audience shout with joy after each scene and each aria, especially at the end. At the desk of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Baku from Asabaidschan, playing powerfully and than again very sensitively stands Ivan Anguélov. Prudently he bows but he also demands. The sound carries the singers, Anguélov knows when the orchestra “talks” and when restraint is advisable. The musical tension never decreases. On the contrary in the second part - even in these tropical temperatures – beginning with Phillip’s monologue up to Elisabeth’s renouncing aria and the mortal final scene without help from the next world, the music once again puts up a stringency and a intensity, which leaves us breathless time and again. Aside from the international and young ensemble, all role debuts by the way, the Immling festival choir made a truly magnificent performance. Powerful, pleading, disconcerted or euphorizing passages stay in good memory.
Klassik.com
'... the perfect teamwork between the Philharmonic State Orchestra under the direction of Ivan Anguélov and the festival choir during the dramatic rebellion at the end of the third act, was probably the real high light of the evening... together with the internationally acknowledged Verdi expert Anguélov, a perfect symbiose and granted the opera festival the kind of brilliance, which it deserves on its 10th anniversary...’
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