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Jonas, Peter, 1946-2020

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Personal name headingJonas, Peter, 1946-2020
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Other standard no.0000000114905861
40189714
Q1772055
Birth date1946-10-14
Death date2020-04-22
Place of birthLondon (England)
Place of deathMunich (Germany)
AffiliationEnglish National Opera
Bayerische Staatsoper Mùˆnchen
Profession or occupationOpera producers and directors
Found inJonas, P. Power house, 1992: t.p. (Peter Jonas)
Int. ww in mus., 14th ed. (Jonas, Peter; b. Oct. 14, 1946, London, Eng.; opera manager)
New York times, May 5, 2020: in an obituary on page A24 (Peter Jonas, born Oct. 14, 1946 in London, died Apr. 22 in Munich [Germany], aged 73; impresario who turned the English National Opera in London and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich into influential hotbeds of innovation; Mr. Jonas was general director of the English National Opera from 1985 to 1993 and intendent (executive and artistic director) of the Bavarian State Opera from 1993 to 2006; encouraged directors and designers, along with like-minded conductors and singers, to take bold interpretive approaches to the great yet elusive and multilayered operas of the past)
Associated languageeng ger