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Petr Weigl
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Petr Weigl, 2011
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Died | 14 July 2018 | (aged 79)
Occupation | Director |
Years active | 1961–2018 |
Petr Weigl (16 March 1939 – 14 July 2018) was a Czech director and playwright.
Biography
In 1961 he graduated from the Prague Film School and the Academy of Performing Arts Television. He worked in the cinema, on television (1961-1976), at the National Theatre (Narodni divadlo, 1976–1991). He created a number of short and feature films for the Czech and Slovak Television, as well as for German public channels ARD and ZDF, British channels BBC and Channel 4. He was twice nominated for the Emmy Award.
He worked in the theaters of Paris and Munich. A major success was the production of Richard Strauss's opera Salome in the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Works
- 1977: Rusalka (Dvorak)
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