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Timur Zangiev
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A new production of Eugene Onegin at Teatro alla Scala, Romeo et Juliette by Gounod at Opernhaus Zürich, Pique Dame at Wiener Staatsoper, debuts at The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Staatsoper Hamburg, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra national de Lyon, Verdi Festival Parma, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and multiple returns to Wiener Staatsoper.
Timur Zangiev is equally active on the concert platform, his collaborations including Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra*, Danish Royal Orchestra, La Monnaie Orchestra, Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, a/o.
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A new production of The Gambler at Salzburger Festspiele, Verdi's Otello at Semperoper Dresden, The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Pique Dame and Romeo and Juliet ballet at Teatro alla Scala, Eugene Onegin at Bayerische Staatsoper, a new production of Sadko by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Bolshoi Theater; over 50 titles among which Orphée et Eurydice, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Medea, La bohème, Manon, L'amour des trois oranges, Bluebeard’s Castle, Oedipus Rex at Stanislavsky Theatre Moscow.
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Reviews & Press
Tchaikovsky, P. - Pique Dame - Conductor
And full throttle was – for now – quite literally life-saving in Timur Zangiev’s passionate conducting. The 30-year-old Russian drove the Staatsoper orchestra to peak performance with theatrical gestures: the strings by turns lush and wiry; the winds powerful to brutal.
Der Standard
...he leads the Vienna State Opera orchestra with confident gestures, allowing them to take their time and unfold a noble, darkly flowing sound.
Die Presse
In the pit came another distinguished debut, the trump card in the pack. Timur Zangiev, barely 30, has made a name for himself as a protégé of Valery Gergiev, particularly in Russian opera. He conducted a rip-roaring account of Tchaikovsky’s fate-filled score [...]
Gramophone Review
Salzburg Festival - Prokofiev - The Gambler
The 30-year-old Russian Timur Zangiev makes his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, and it is a magnificent one.
Sergei Prokofiev's first opera “The Gambler” has its premiere here on Monday evening, and Zangiev bores into the piece until he finds the cornerstones between which it is stretched: here garish, loud tones, an unstoppable motoric and a cool continuous parlando; there moments of standstill and a highly emotional, intimate chamber play. The conductor fills the space in between with the finest nuances and dynamic gradations as well as delicate tonal shadings.
- Susanne Benda , Stuttgarter Zeitung
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...we can now hear a very convincing mixture of soft Viennese sound and Timur Zangiev's tight, orderly, pointed and altogether extremely assured conducting. The 30-year-old Russian Salzburg debutant is currently much in demand internationally. And rightly so, as it turns out.
- Judith von Sternburg , fr.de
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The conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic is no self-actualizer, no young genius with poses for the gallery, but a craftsman. He keeps the motor skills of the score running, its sucking circles, without overheating the music. Neon colors, bizarreness, bitingly nasty details, the simultaneity of completely different musical aggregate states - you can hear all of that. But Zangiev has understood: Prokofiev needs no coaching, no artificial exaggeration, but a pilot who organizes, weighs up and fits it all in. This conducting is captivating because it is so adept and takes the often stubborn Philharmoniker on a journey through music that is rarely performed. Timur Zangiev is a name to remember.
- Markus Thiel , merkur.de
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Symphony Concert - Tchaikovsky - Shostakovich
Il ventinovenne direttore russo in Ciaikovskij e Shostakovic conferma le enormi qualità che si erano già intraviste lo scorso anno: è nata una stella
- Francesco Bogliari , affaritaliani.it
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La bacchetta sopraffina di Zangiev a questo punto accende l’intera orchestra in una tempesta di fuoco, annunciata dai martellanti timpani e da una sfolgorante fanfara di ottoni prima che tutto finisca come in una “tragedia irreparabile”.
Pubblico in visibilio, successo meritatissimo per tutti… “Questa è stata la sua risposta, ed è stata una buona risposta”.
- Alessandro Arnoldo , artesnews.it
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Teatro alla Scala - Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame
Dans la fosse, Timur Zanguiev joue une carte gagnante face à l’excellente phalange milanaise par l’assurance, la justesse et la maitrise de sa direction en symbiose totale avec les chanteurs et la dramaturgie : des débuts périlleux mais prometteurs, à suivre au delà de cette nouvelle production, au demeurant très réussie….
- Patrice Imbaud , Resmusica
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Dirigendo senza bacchetta, con gesto pulito e ampio, all’occorrenza energico e scattante, Zangiev dà, dell’elaborata partitura, una lettura raffinata e nitida, coesa e di lucida levigatezza, soffusa e al contempo vibrante, ottenendo dalla compagine scaligera un suono polito e dalle tinte pastello, all’occorrenza variegato in sonorità corrusche e maggiormente livide (in momenti quali, ad esempio, il temporale del I atto o il suicidio di Liza). Una direzione, quella di Zangiev, nella quale coesistono felicemente tecnica ferrea, rigore stilistico, squisita sensibilità interpretativa e duttilità timbrica, tutto molto apprezzato dagli spettatori.
- Stefano Balbiani , Connessi all'Opera
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Bolshoi Theatre - Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko - Conductor
The accents, somewhere lyrical, somewhere angry, were brightly and correctly placed by conductor Timur Zangiev, and helped the action without drowning out a single director's note.
- Elena Gubaidullina , St. Petersburg Theatrical Journal
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Conductor Timur Zangiev and the orchestra under his direction were a separate, special joy. Amazing, thorough, emotional work
- Anton Dolin
It is important that there were no rude denominations that kill the epic flow of the musical stream: grandeur and coloristic beauty, measure and harmony in the sound of the orchestra (under the baton of Timur Zangiev)…
Russian Newspaper
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