Georges Prêtre
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- August 14, 1924
- Died
- January 4, 2017
- Birthplace
- Waziers, Nord, France
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
Filmography
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2010 TBA
as Self - Conductor
New Year's Concert 2010 2010
as Self
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2008 2008
as Conductor
Pagliacci 1987
as Self - Conductor
Cavalleria rusticana 1982
as Self - Conductor
Les Contes d'Hoffmann 1981
as Self - Conductor, Music Director
Puccini - Turandot (1969) Birgit Nilsson 1969
as Conductor
Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964 1962
Orchestrator
Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1959 and 1962 1962
as Self - Conductor, Director
Credits from TMDB.