Hermann Prey
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Biography
As a young teenager the German baritone singer Hermann Prey narrowly escaped being drafted into the German army after the allied forces entered Berlin and hostilities ceased. Prey went on to study voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and won the Hessischer Rundfunk prize at Frankfurt in 1952. He began to perform recitals and made his opera debut the following year playing Moruccio in Eugen d'Albert's 'Tiefland'. Following a series of performances of the opera with Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Prey joined the Hamburg State Opera where he remained until 1960.
Prey's natural ebullience made him a popular casting choice for directors looking for a leading baritone to play parts written in the comic Italian opera style. His virtuosic performances and natural comic acting ability endeared him to audiences around the world and he began to get film and TV parts performing opera; he played Figaro in the 1976 film 'Le Nozze di Figaro' produced by the French opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Prey became a popular TV celebrity in Germany often appearing with Fritz Wunderlich. Later in his career Prey taught at the University of Music in Hamburg. He died in Krailling, Bavaria at the age of 69 in 1998.
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- Der Freischütz · Oper in 3 Akten: Ouvertüre (Orchester) featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 1: "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 1 - "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" featuring Hermann Prey
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II, "Bravo! Che bella voce!" featuring Hermann Prey
- Der Zigeunerbaron, Act II: So voll Fröhlichkeit gibt es weit und breit. Keine Stadt wie die Wienerstadt featuring Hermann Prey
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II, "Voi che sapete" featuring Hermann Prey
- Kommet ihr Hirten featuring Maria Stader
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - Non vè più tempo, amici featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - "Di scrivermi ogni giorno" - "Bella vita militar" featuring Hermann Prey
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II, "Quante buffonerie!" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Die Zufriedenheit: Wie sanft, wie ruhig, K.473
- J.S. Bach: Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen BWV 481 by Leonard Hokanson
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - "Sento, oh Dio, che questo piede" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - "La commedia è graziosa" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - Bella vita militar! featuring Hermann Prey
- Act I: Cavatina: La la la leranâ¦Largo al factotum featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 1 - "Non piangere, idol mio!" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: An die Freude: Freude, Königin der Weisen, K.53
- Ich sing mein schönstes Lied
- Gypsy Baron: Act 1 (Part 1)
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 2 - "Il tutto deponete sopra quei tavolini" featuring Hermann Prey
- Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 / Act 2 - "Secondate, aurette amiche" featuring Hermann Prey
- Gypsy Baron: Act 1 (Part 2)
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act I, "Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio" featuring Hermann Prey
