Adam Fischer
The Hungarian-born Adam Fischer originates from Budapest and began his studies of conducting and composition at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of his home town. Further studies were completed with the legendary Hans Swarovsky in Vienna.
Adam Fischer regularly conducts at all the major opera houses in Europe and the USA. His collaboration with the Wiener Staatsoper began in 1973, where he has led a large number of performances and highly successful premieres. In 1984 he gave his début at the Paris Opera (Der Rosenkavalier) and in 1986 at La Scala in Mila (The Magic Flute). In 1994 he made his début at the Metropolitan Opera New York with Otello. As of 2001 Adam Fischer holds also the position of General Music Director at the National Theatre of Mannheim. In 2001 he gave his premiere performance of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth. These performances were met with outstanding international media acclaim, which culminated to him being named “Conductor of the Year” by the German periodical Opernwelt. On the concert stage Adam Fischer os also a welcome guest of many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Royal Philharmonic, Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra as well as both the Hungarian National Philharmonic and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the latter of which he is also General Music Director.
In 1987 Adam Fischer was the co-founder of the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt in Austria. On this occasion he also founded the Astro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra with which he continues to share a close collaboration up until today. Apart from concert and opera performances at the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt they have also recorded the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn in the authentic Haydn Hall of the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. This complete cycle was recorded by Nimbus Records.
As of 1998 he is the Principal Conductor of the Danish Radio Sinfonietta in Copenhagen, with which he is presently recording all the “Opere Serie” of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mitridate, Lucio Silla, Il Re Pastore, and Idomeneo have already been published; and La Clemenza di Tito will follow later.