Petr Weigl (16 March 1939 – 14 July 2018)[1] was a Czech director and playwright.
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Born | (1939-03-16)16 March 1939 Brno, Czechoslovakia |
Died | 14 July 2018(2018-07-14) (aged 79) |
Occupation | Director |
Years active | 1961–2018 |
Website | petrweigl.cz |
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.[2] He was twice nominated for the Emmy Award.[3]
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.[4]
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