Known For
Sound
Born
Aug 14, 1924
Died
Jan 04, 2017
Place of Birth
Waziers, Nord, France
Credits
11 titles
Georges Prêtre
Biography
Georges Prêtre was a French orchestral and opera conductor. Prêtre attended the Douai Conservatory and then studied harmony under Maurice Duruflé and conducting under André Cluytens among others at the Conservatoire de Paris. Amongst his early musical interests were jazz and trumpet. After graduating, he conducted in a number of small French opera houses sometimes under the pseudonym Georges Dherain. His conducting debut was at the Opéra de Marseille in 1946. He also conducted at the opera houses in Lille and Toulouse. His Paris debut was at the Opéra-Comique in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. He was director of the Opéra-Comique 1955–1959. He conducted at the Lyric Opera of Chicago 1959–1971. He was conductor, 1959, and music director 1970–1971, at the Paris Opéra. He was principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony 1986–1991
Known For
Filmography
New Year's Concert 2010
Self
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2008
Conductor
Pagliacci
Self - Conductor
Cavalleria rusticana
Self - Conductor
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Self - Conductor
Fan School
Self
Samedi soir
Self
Puccini - Turandot (1969) Birgit Nilsson
Conductor
Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
Orchestrator
Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1959 and 1962
Self - Conductor
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2010
Self - Conductor