歌唱家Hermann Prey,中文名及简历

Hermann Prey赫尔曼 普雷
　　Hermann Prey (July 11, 1929 – July 22, 1998) was a German baritone. He is renowned as the foremost Figaro of the third quarter of the 20th century.

　　Biography

　　Hermann Prey was born in Berlin and grew up in Nazi Germany. He was scheduled to be drafted when World War II ended. He studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and won the prize of the Frankfurt contest of the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1952.

　　He began to sing in song recitals and made his operatic debut the next year in Wiesbaden. He joined the Hamburger Staatsoper, where he sang until 1960. During his last years in Hamburg, he also made frequent guest appearances elsewhere, including the Salzburg Festival.

　　He sang frequently at the Metropolitan Opera between 1960 and 1970 and made his Bayreuth debut in 1965. Although he often sang Verdi early in his career, he later concentrated more on Mozart and Richard Strauss. Prey, a light baritone, was