Ãdám Fischer
Ádám Fischer ( born September 9, 1949 in Budapest) is an international Hungarian conductor who has emerged primarily as an expert on the works of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner and Béla Bartók.
Ádám Fischer was born into a musical family. He studied composition and conducting first in Budapest, then in Vienna with Hans Swarovsky. In 1973 he won the First Prize of the Cantelli Competition in Milan and then got his first job as a coach at the Graz Opera. Subsequently, he was principal conductor at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. From 1981 to 1983 he was music director at the Theater Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1987 to 1992 at the Staatstheater Kassel and from 2000 to 2005 at the National Theatre Mannheim. In 2001 he took over at short notice at the Bayreuth Festival in the direction of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, for which he was elected by the Opernwelt Conductor of the Year 2002. By 2010 he was Music Director of the Hungarian State Opera House.
His international career started very early. The beginning of his collaboration with the Vienna State Opera goes back to the year 1973. In 1984 he made his debut at the Paris Opera with Der Rosenkavalier, in 1986 at La Scala with The Magic Flute. His debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London in 1989 with Die Fledermaus, which at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1994 with Verdi's Otello.
In addition to his opera engagements, he often conducts major symphony orchestra as a guest conductor around the world.
In 1987, he was co-founder of the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, for which he founded the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic. In addition to concerts and opera performances at Esterházy Palace he played with this orchestra 1987-2001 the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn one.
Since 1998 he is also chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Danish Radio Sinfonietta ) in Copenhagen, with whom he recorded until 2006, all Opere serie of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Currently, Fischer played with this orchestra Mozart's complete symphonies on CD.
Fischer's recording of the complete orchestral works of Béla Bartók, which he recorded 1989-1992, was praised by critics as a reference recording.
Ádám Fischer's brother Iván Fischer is also an internationally successful conductor.