Georges Prêtre
Actor
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
As Director
Filmography
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
as Self - Conductor 1981
Pagliacci
as Self - Conductor 1987
New Year's Concert 2010
as Self 2010
Cavalleria rusticana
as Self - Conductor 1982
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2008
as Conductor 2008
Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1959 and 1962
as Self - Conductor 1962