In the last few days, the New York Philharmonic has been conducted by Iván Fischer, the Hungarian. He is one of the Fabulous Fischer Brothers, the other being Ádám, also a conductor. Iván’s program ...

It's high on everyone's short list of "world's greatest operas," but performances of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" can often feel ponderous and dramatically inert. So the taut, fast-paced production that ...

Iván Fischer paced the manic opening more slowly than you’d expect, but he shaped the unfolding drama with masterful edge, reminding us that this is no mere orchestral showpiece but a story with a ...

Last Sunday, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) and renowned conductor Iván Fischer concluded their American tour in the Boston Symphony Hall, honoring the very conductor whose name is inscribed in ...

Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer. Born in Budapest into a musical family (his older brother, Ádám Fischer, is also a conductor), Fischer initially studied ...

Hopes were high that a successful match was in the making when the National Symphony Orchestra announced last year that the Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer would become its orchestra's new principal ...

Ivan Fischer strode out from the wings of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall with a confident gait and determined look, seeming oblivious to the audience's applause. As he reached the podium, there was ...

Lincoln Center’s summer festival will also feature Jeanine Tesori’s opera “Blue,” about police violence. By Michael Cooper The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer prove once again that ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 is a peroration of the Romantic symphony, written from the vantage point of a post-Romantic sensibility. It’s brilliantly orchestrated, contrapuntally complex and ...