Florian Prey

Florian Prey (* 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German opera singer (lyric baritone ).

Life

Prey came as the son of the baritone Hermann Prey and his wife Barbara, geb. Pniok, to the world. He studied with Hanno Blaschke at the Munich University of Music . He made his debut as Count in Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice . There he sang Jesus in the first staged performance of Bach's St. John Passion . Florian Prey was a member of the Vienna Chamber Opera , where he played Silvio in George Tabori's production of Bajazzo by Ruggiero Leoncavallo .

Prey is a member of the ensemble named after him baroque florian prey, which is dedicated to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has participated in various television, radio and CD recordings. Since 2006 he has headed the 1,981 called by his father to life Festival Autumn Music Festival Bad Urach . In Gauting near Munich he is the artistic director of the small summer festival in the Remise Schloss Fußberg .

In 2010 Florian Prey received the Günther Klinge Prize from the municipality of Gauting for his artistic work.

Recordings (selection)

released on the CD label Orplid Schallträger

• Moral cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann . Florian Prey, baritone / Hans Christian Schweiker, violoncello / Stefan Palm, harpsichord.
• Franz Schubert: The beautiful miller . Florian Prey, baritone / Thomas Schubert , piano.
• "The evening is falling quietly" - the most beautiful evening songs by Robert Schumann , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johann Sebastian Bach , Johannes Brahms and others. v. a. Florian Prey, baritone / Birgitta Eila, piano / Klaus Kämper, violoncello.
• Do you want to give your heart to me Cantatas and songs by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Georg Friedrich Händel . Florian Prey, baritone / Marga Henschel, harpsichord / Klaus Kämper, violoncello / Christoph and Markus Henschel, violin.
• Franz Schubert: Winter Journey . Florian Prey, baritone / Rico Gulda , piano.
• Adolph Kurt Böhm : The Magic of Life. Songs based on poems by Albrecht Graf von Rechberg . Florian Prey, baritone / Birgitta Eila, piano.
• Adolph Kurt Böhm: Genius Astri. Songs based on poems by Manfred Kyber . Florian Prey, baritone / Birgitta Eila, piano.
• Adolph Kurt Böhm: A quiet little window. Songs and ballads based on Wilhelm Busch . Florian Prey, baritone / Detlev Eisinger , piano.

literature

• in: Erika von Borries: Wilhelm Müller - The poet of the winter journey - A biography . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56212-9 , p. 317 . , with two CDs, CD 1: Gert Westphal reads Die Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . CD 2: New recording of Winterreise (Schubert) by Florian Prey (baritone) and Wolfgang Leibnitz (piano).

Web links

• Works by and about Florian Prey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Florian Prey's homepage
• Website of the small summer festival
• Thomas Lochte: For tea with Sabine - Florian Prey's career