Mihai Timofti started the career of the musical theatre director in the Orenbourg Theatre of the Musical Comedy being still the student in the 4th year of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatoire. Here "... he was the first in the country ..." to bring about the staging of the children`s musical Cat Leopold`s Birthday by Saveliev. "...the performance turned out to be interesting, resourceful, with many stage director`s godsends..."("The South Ural", December 1984.)

In September 1987 the fist night of the lyrico-dramatic operetta "The King of the Waltz" by J.Strauss in the Saransk Theatre of Musical Comedy (Mordovia) staged by the Head Director of the theatre M. Timofti took place. "...the premiere show of "The King of the Waltz" was sold out for every performance both in Sterlitamak (Bashkir ASSR) and in Zlatoust (Cheliabinsk region) ..."("The Soviet Mordovia" , the 27th of September 1987.)

"...The spectators will see and hear the lyric operetta "The King of the Waltz" opening the theatre tour. The Head Director of the theatre M.Timofti staged it... The performance is created in romantic art tradition and it revives the brilliant character of Strauss ... This year the first night of the comic opera "Dorothea" by Hrennikov took place. This optimistic performance, where the vivid, festive music is heard, lit in a new fashion the professional level of the cast. (Director of the performance - M.Timofti, Artist - L.A. Alexeeva, Conductor - N.N. Klinov, Ballet-master - O.P. Egorov)..."("The Velikolukskaya Pravda", the 1st of September, 1988)

"... Remarkable is the performance "Donna Lucia" by O. Feltsman . There is an attractive feature in "Donna Lucia" . The performance is dynamic and energetic. One can feel an experienced director hand. (The stage-director is M. Timofti), a vivid manner of performing, the bright sounding of orchestra (the conductor is N.N. Klinov)..."("The Velikolukskaya Pravda", the 15th of September, 1988.)

"...A new performance "Captaim Flint`s Treasures" by composer B. Saveliev appeared on the stage of the Tomsk Theatre of the Musical Comedy ... The contact with the spectator is complete and unreserved, it is also favoured by the stage effects devised by the performance Director Mihail Timofti... In a word, the performance is impressive ... The debut on the Tomsk stage proved to be successful. (the first night, the 2nd of January, 1990.)..."("The Red Banner", the 23rd of January, 1990.)

"...The first night of the performance "Dorothea" is being prepared in the Theatre of Musical Comedy. The production is realized by Director M. Timofti invited from Kishinev...The big full-lenght canvases with a large-scale dramatic art where the chours and ballet are involted draw the Director. The comedy of sword and cloak "Dorothea" by T. Hrennikov become such a canvas... And the most important thing that is worth mentioning here is the fact that M. Timofti stages the performance in comedia del arte traditions. The main things here are hyperbole, grotesque. It is a great occasion, amerry carnival, the characters in the play are in masks, before our eyes they work wonders of acting... The complexity of work with "Dorothea" consists in diverging from the traditional style of operetta performing because this style would frustrate the concept of the lyrico-grotesque force conceived by the Director..."("The Red Banner" , the 21st of February, 1990.)

"...The children's performance "The Ugly Duckling" is played for the 32nd time on the stage of the Moldavian Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The house is full. It is the last day of autumn vacantion, and kiddies came to celebrate the occasion. And the festival took place...The fairy-tale in a new attire was presented to the children by the actor of most difficult genre - the opera... Wonderful are godsends of the performance Director Mihail Vasilievich Timofti. We hope that in his person we are blessed with an interesting, telented, ingenious professional who will gladden us with new performances..."( "Independent Moldova" , the 14th of November, 1991. )

"...- My dear, I should like to tell you about the performance as a whole. The vision of the Director (M.Timofti) is modern, the scenography is up-to-date and generally speaking all the performance is contemporary. The text remained the same, the music is the same, but everything is read in a new fashion. We must strive forward. It is a beautiful performance, I liked it very much, it is staged well. The audience liked it very much, applause proves that..."(From the interview with the soloist of the N. Leonard Galats Musical Theatre, Margareta Chiss of the first night of the operetta " Mademoiselle Nitouche" by Herve, Romania, "Viata libera", the 13th of January, 1993.)

"...Special mention must also be made of Mihai Timofti as Frosch: to sustain a long solo comic scene such as that in Act III is difficult enough, but to do it in a foreign language and still get the audience laughing is quite a feat..."( Sunderland, Peter Lathan, 2006 )

"...Mihai Timofti as Frosch, the prison warden, is a good comic turn..."( Edinburgh Evening News, 17 November, 2006 )

"...It is seldom that a nonsinging role steals the limelight, but that was exactly what Mihai Timofti did as the drunken jailor Frosch. His was a demonstration of comic timing at its best..."( The Courier & Advertiser, 23 November, 2006 )

"...Alfredo and Eisenstein went off to the clink where Mihai Timofti, far more comic and confident than Yuri Stamati's inaudible lawyer, Dr. Blind, was a joy as the bumbling and drunk jailor who orchestrated the final theatrics under falling stars..."( Cumberland News Website, 7-th December 2006 )

"...On the basis of paragraph 88 of the Republic of Moldova Constitution and National Reward Law, the president of Republic of Moldova
a p p r o v e s :


Director Mihail Timofti to be confered the rank of Master of Arts for great success in creative activity, for high professionalism and important contribution in education of new talents


President of Republic of Moldova - Vladimir Voronin..."( translated from "Official Monitor" of Republic of Moldova, #157-160, 5th of october 2007 )