
Known for
Music and sound
Born
August 14, 1924
Birthplace
Waziers, Nord, France
Died
January 4, 2017 (aged 92)
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...
TBA
as Self - Conductor
2010
as Self
2008
as Conductor
1987
as Self - Conductor
1982
as Self - Conductor
1981
as Self - Conductor, Music Director
1977
1971
1969
as Conductor
1962
Orchestrator
1962
as Self - Conductor, Director