Petr Weigl (16 March 1939 â 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, 1976âÂÂ1991). 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
- 1967 Bolero (TV)
- 1967 OsamÃÂlost (TV)
- 1967 Pas de quatre (TV)
- 1968 SvÃÂt je bájeÃÂné mÃÂsto k narozenà(TV)
- 1969 BludiÃ
¡tàmoci (TV)
- 1970 Radúz a Mahulena
- 1971 Romeo a Julie (TV)
- 1972 Dva bratÃ
Âi (TV)
- 1972 Faust a Markéta
- 1973 Apollón a múzy / Apollon Musagétes
- 1973 Margita a Besná (TV)
- 1974 ÃÂarodÃÂjná láska / El amor brujo
- 1977 VzkÃ
ÂÃÂÃ
¡enà/ Vzkrisenie (TV)
- 1977: Rusalka (Dvorak)
- 1979 Poetické úvahy ve volných chvÃÂlÃÂch / Poetische Betrachtungen in freien Stunden (TV)
- 1980 Nerozumný génius / Der Wahnwitzige Genius
- 1982 Pod koly osudu / The Turn of the Screw (TV)
- 1983 Zuzana VojÃÂÃ
Âová (TV)
- 1984 Achilles (TV)
- 1984 Utrpenàsvatého Ã
 ebestiána / Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
- 1985 OlovÃÂná noc / Die Nacht aus Blei (TV)
- 1986 Werther (TV)
- 1987 PavÃÂ pÃÂrko / Die Pfauenfeder (TV)
- 1988 Marie Stuartovna / Maria Stuarda (TV)
- 1988 EvÃ
¾en OnÃÂgin (TV)
- 1990 Dumky (TV)
- 1990 Romeo a Julie na vsi / A Village Romeo and Juliet (TV)
- 1992 Lady Macbeth Mcenského újezdu / Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (TV)
- 1993 ZimnÃÂ cesta / Die Winterreise (TV)
- 1996 Jak se dÃÂlá opera / Let's Make an Opera (TV)
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