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person_profile-Georges Prêtre

Georges Prêtre Died at age: 92

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Georges Prêtre

Date of Birth:

Aug 14, 1924

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Jan 04, 2017

Biography of

Georges Prêtre

    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

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Georges Prêtre

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Filmography of

Georges Prêtre

Found 4 Movies in total

Pagliacci

Self - Conductor ( Actor )

... 1987

Cavalleria rusticana

Self - Conductor ( Actor )

... 1982

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Self - Conductor ( Actor )

Music Director

... 1981

Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1959 and 1962

Self - Conductor ( Actor )

Director

... 1962