Georges Prêtre

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1924-08-14

Deathday 2017-01-04 (92 years old)

Place of Birth Waziers, Nord, France

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

Sound

1981
Les Contes d'Hoffmann

as Music Director

Actor

1987
Pagliacci

as Self - Conductor

1982
Cavalleria rusticana

as Self - Conductor

1981
Les Contes d'Hoffmann

as Self - Conductor

1977
Fan School

as Self

1971
Samedi soir

as Self