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.
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