Hermann Prey

Growing up through the regime from the the National Socialist Get together, Hermann Prey was planned to become drafted at age 15 when the finish of World Battle II brought peace and a opportunity for him to review tone of voice with Gunther Baum and Jaro Prohaska in the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. He sang his first lieder recital in 1952 and the next year he produced his operatic debut as Monuccio in d’Albert’s Tiefland at Wiesbaden. He was after that engaged with the Hamburg Condition Opera (1953-1960) where besides performing a lot of the regular baritone assignments he was also extremely acclaimed for his function in contemporary operas by Liebermann, Dallapiccola, and Henze. Through the next many years, Victim sang on the Vienna Condition Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, with Cologne. His Bayreuth debut emerged in 1956 as Wolfram in Tannhäconsumer. After 1959, Munich became his operatic house although he continuing to sing at every one of the important opera homes in the globe including London, NY, Paris, Milan, Chicago, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and Amsterdam. He was also a normal visitor towards the celebrations at Salzburg and Edinburgh. He was internationally regarded for his Mozart interpretations including Don Giovanni, Count number Almaviva, Guglielmo, and Papageno, but attained popularity along with his Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia, the elder Germont in La Traviata, the Barber in Die Schweigsame Frau by Richard Strauss, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. He also sang in lots of modern operas, including Pallas Athene by Krenek and Prinz von Homburg by Henze. Later in his profession, he was an extremely effective Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger. For most of his popularity as an opera superstar, to many music artists, Hermann Victim is best appreciated for his recitals. He provided his initial American recital in 1956 and was a normal visitor before end of his profession. He was also an excellent preferred in Japan. He was specifically popular for his interpretations from the music of Schubert, but he was similarly aware of the requirements of several various other German and Austrian composers. He was much less effective in the few situations he moved beyond the German repertoire. Within the concert stage, Victim was popular for his performing from the Bach Passions and even more specifically the Brahms Deutsches Requiem. Many listeners evaluate Victim with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau like a music interpreter, however their method of music producing was quite different. Fischer-Dieskau provides each term and phrase a person importance whereas Victim allowed the complete structure to unfold as an entity. Both techniques are valid and also have their adherents. Hermann Prey’s tone of voice was a lyric baritone with great heat and he previously complete control of most dynamic variants. He could convey a feeling from the comic components of a music without dropping the musical feeling of the complete piece. He documented a multi-volume series for Philips to track the annals of German lieder through the Minnesingers to tracks by Reutter and Blacher. In 1982, he started teaching in the Musikhochschule Hamburg to be able to transfer what he learned all about music interpretation. He was also among the founders of the Schubert Event in Austria. His boy Florian in addition has made a profession like a baritone performing a number of the same assignments that his dad was most well-known. Hermann Victim will be appreciated for the great musicianship and the wonder of his tone of voice.