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

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

as Self - Conductor

Pagliacci

as Self - Conductor

Fan School

as Self

New Year's Concert 2010

as Self

Cavalleria rusticana

as Self - Conductor

Samedi soir

as Self

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2008

as Conductor

Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1959 and 1962

as Self - Conductor

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2010

as Self - Conductor