Timur Zangiev
Conductor

In recent years Timur Zangiev has established himself as one of the most exciting and sought-after conductors of his generation. At the age of only 30 he has already conducted more than fifty opera productions and worked with many international orchestras, among them all the major orchestras in his home country of Russia. He makes his debut at the 2024 Salzburg Festival with The Gambler.
Engagements in the 2024/25 season will include Otello at the Semperoper Dresden, Roméo et Juliette at the Zurich Opera House, Eugene Onegin at La Scala, Milan, and The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera. He will also make his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Hamburg State Opera, the Verdi Festival in Parma and the Ljubljana Festival. Recent highlights have included his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with Eugene Onegin, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels and The Queen of Spades and Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at La Scala. In concert he has conducted ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Filarmonica dell Scala and the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023 he conducted the season-opening concert at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
Timur Zangiev began his musical career at Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, where he conducted productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Aida, Tosca, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, La bohème, Manon, Orfeo ed Euridice, The Queen of Spades, Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, The Love of Three Oranges, Khovanshchina, Bluebeard’s Castle, Oedipus Rex, Der Freischütz, Médée and Iolanta. He also conducted productions of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and of Die Zauberflöte at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.